Cyrus the Great (Annotated)

Jacob Abbott's Cyrus the Great presents the life of the Persian founder-king as both historical narrative and moral exemplum. Drawing chiefly on classical sources such as Herodotus and Xenophon, Abbott recounts Cyrus's legendary childhood, rise to power, military genius, clemency, and imperial vision in a lucid, didactic prose characteristic of nineteenth-century popular history. The book belongs ...