TY - BOOK AU - Tatum,James TI - Xenophon's imperial fiction: on the education of Cyrus T2 - Princeton legacy library SN - 9781400860036 AV - PA4494.C9 T38 1989eb U1 - 883/.01 19 PY - 1989///] CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Xenophon. KW - Cyrus, KW - Xénophon. KW - Cyrus II, KW - Cyropaedia (Xenophon) KW - fast KW - Political fiction, Greek KW - History and criticism KW - Didactic fiction KW - Education of princes in literature KW - Kings and rulers in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Education of princes KW - Greece KW - History KW - Rois et souverains dans la littérature KW - Princes KW - Éducation KW - Grèce KW - Histoire KW - Impérialisme dans la littérature KW - Politique-fiction grecque KW - Histoire et critique KW - Roman didactique KW - Éducation, dans la littérature KW - POETRY KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - Literature KW - Literatura grega clássica (história e crítica) KW - larpcal KW - Historiografia KW - Grécia antiga KW - Electronic books KW - 7 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes indexes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287); Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Chapter One. The Classic as Footnote --; Chapter Two. The Rise of a Novel --; Chapter Three. The Curious Return of Cambyses --; Chapter Four. The Grandson of Astyages --; Chapter Five. The Envy of Uncle Cyaxares --; Chapter Six. Dialectical Imperialism: Tigranes and the Sophist of Armenia --; Chapter Seven. In the Face of the Enemy: A Meeting with Croesus of Lydia --; Chapter Eight. The Uses of Eros and the Hero --; Chapter Nine. The Economy of Empire --; Chapter Ten. Revision --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; INDEX LOCORUM N2 - "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. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=791262 ER -