Xenophōntes Kyrou Paideias Biblia Oktō = Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione Libri Octo
by Xenophon
| Xenophontes Kyrou Paideias Biblia Okto | ||
 at the College of William & Mary. |
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| Author | Xenophon | |
| Published | Oxonii: e theatro Sheldoniano | |
| Date | 1727 | |
The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography[1]of Cyrus the Great, written around 370 BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The Latinized title Cyropaedia derives from Greek Kúrou paideía (Κύρου παιδεία), meaning "The Education of Cyrus". Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre known as mirrors for princes.
Although it is "generally agreed" that Xenophon "did not intend Cyropaedia as history",,ref> Xenophon (1914), Miller, Walter, ed., Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus, London: William Heinemann Ltd.</ref> it remains unclear whether this work was intended to fit into any other classical genre known before. Its validity as a source of Achaemenid history has been repeatedly questioned, and numerous descriptions of events or persons have been determined to be in error.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Xenophontis Cyropaedia. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson. 4to." This was one of the titles kept by Thomas Jefferson and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both George Wythe's Library[2] on LibraryThing and the Brown Bibliography[3] list the 1727 edition published in Oxford based on the edition Millicent Sowerby included in Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson,[4] but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of Xenophōntes Kyrou Paideias Biblia Oktō.
See also
- Jefferson Inventory
- Wythe's Library
- Ta tou Xenophontos Hellenika: kai ho Agesilaos = Xenophontis Graecorum res Gestae: et Agesilaus
- Xenophontos Hierōn, ē Tyrannikos = Xenophontis Hiero sive De Regno
References
- ↑ Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Heleen (1993), "Cyropaedia", Encyclopaedia Iranica 6.5, Costa Mesa: Mazda
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on November 19, 2013.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:10-11 [no.21].
