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Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Larry Hedrick, Xenophon

Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War Larry Hedrick, Xenophon ebook
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Page: 320
ISBN: 9781429905312
Format: pdf

Asin 0312364695 Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership And War - Larry Hedrick - ec 06ffbcd6001d157edda97435075b42db. Xenophon notes that sheep, pigs, and Glad I wasn't Ashbrook and there was a war going on! It's one of the main sources of information concerning Cyrus, The Hedrick version of Xenophon's Cyrus the Great is an edited biography as well as an imbedded list of 134 important rules a leader should follow, using Cyrus's real life experiences as examples of the rules. Download Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War Electronic book text in proprietary or open. Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War book download. Early in the fifth century B.C., after a revolt of the Greeks of Ionia (roughly the west coast of present day Turkey) against the Persian Achaemenid empire, the Persian king Darius (the Great) decided to punish the Greeks to Darius had two sons, Artaxerxes and Cyrus, the latter of which ruled over Asia Minor and had supported Sparta towards the end of the Peloponnesian War. By coincidence, I begin a close reading of Xenophon's Education of Cyrus with my Pepperdine University graduate class on political leadership this morning. Written 2500 years ago, his biography of the Persian king has often been compared to Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Now Xenophon is writing a fictional historical biography on Cyrus the Great and his work is in many respects an encomium to the leader that lived some two centuries prior. Notable Quotes from Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership And War (as marked by Tucker): You cannot expect your wealth to last for a lifetime unless it's preserved by ethical principles. The Cyropaedia, like the rest of Xenophon's The opening poses a great and basic question about political life for students to ponder: Why are human beings hard to govern? (Below: One of my favorite “classic” works of art – Alexander (he's on the far left) vs.