Xenophon's imperial fiction : On the education of Cyrus

by: Tatum, J.

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“If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough,” writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, “… you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon?s Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia.” The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire celebrated in the Book of Ezra as the liberator of Israel, and the Cyropaedia, written to instruct future rulers by his example, became not only an inspiration to poets and novelists but a profoundly influential political work. With Alexander as its earliest student, and Elizabeth I of England one of its later pupils, it was the founding text for the tradition of “mirrors for princes” in the West, including Machiavelli?s Prince. Xenophon?s masterpiece has been overlooked in recent years: Tatum?s goal is to make it fully meaningful for the twentieth-century reader.

To accomplish this aim, he uses reception study, philological and historical criticism, and an intertextual and structural analysis of the narrative. Engaging the fictional and the political in a single reading, he explains how the form of the work allowed Xenophon to transcend the limitations of historical writing, although in the end the historian?s passion for truth forced him to subvert the work in a controversial epilogue.

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