Cyropaedia

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jean-Léon Gérôme and Giovanni Paolo Panini. Xenophon takes the life of Cyrus the Great and turns it into an argument about how men are best led: the training of a prince, the management of an army, the handling of allies who have ideas of their own. It is the earliest surviving work of its kind in Greek and was read as a wo...