Refighting Cunaxa

Rop, Jeffrey

doi:10.4324/9780429443978-9

Greek and Roman Military Manuals 2020

DOI: 10.4324/9780429443978-9

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Refighting Cunaxa

Jeffrey Rop¹

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“…Gray argues that Cyrus expresses and embodies a theory of leadership that Xenophon elaborates throughout his works (Gray 2016, 2011). Others argue that Xenophon’s Cyrus is a vehicle for implicit commentary on particular figures, such as Agesilaus (Christesen 2006), Cyrus the Younger, and Clearchus of Sparta (Rop 2021, 153).…”

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The Education Cyrus Missed

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2022

Political Research Quarterly

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This manuscript contributes to a growing body of scholarship aimed at understanding the intentions of Xenophon in portraying the founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great. While Xenophon initially suggests that Cyrus is wise, a close reading of the work as a whole reveals defects in Cyrus’ moral understanding. Xenophon’s Cyrus largely misses the Persian education in justice. This shapes his development by strengthening his initial instinct to equate justice with the beneficial, rather than with the legal. As he rises to power, he continually insists that justice is good, and he uses his power to try to ensure its goodness. But he never seriously considers the idea that justice might demand a sacrifice of one’s own good, and thus, he never full embraces the beauty of noble self-sacrifice, something that the work as a whole suggests Xenophon saw as an essential element in education.

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“…2.Keim (2016, 146), Rop (2021, 166), and Tuplin (1994, 136), and Gray (2016, 305). On the historical Cyrus, see Briant (2002, 31–61).…”

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