This paper examines the role of the distinction between the Persian kingdom and the Persian empire drawn in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia with the view to showing that Cyrus’s government of his empire does not lend itself to a darker reading, but rather that his style of rule is based on an aristocratic-meritocratic view of the world.
TY - JOUR
AU - Jordovic, Ivan
PY - 2016
UR - http://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/1051
AB - This paper examines the role of the distinction between the Persian kingdom and the Persian empire drawn in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia with the view to showing that Cyrus’s government of his empire does not lend itself to a darker reading, but rather that his style of rule is based on an aristocratic-meritocratic view of the world.
PB - Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA
T2 - Balcanica
T1 - Kingdom versus empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
SP - 35
EP - 53
IS - 47
DO - 10.2298/BALC1647035J
ER -
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Jordovic I. Kingdom versus empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. Balcanica. 2016;(47):35-53
,& Jordovic, I. (2016). Kingdom versus empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia.
BalcanicaInstitute for Balkan Studies of SASA., null(47), 35-53.
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1647035J
Jordovic Ivan, "Kingdom versus empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia" null, no. 47 (2016):35-53,
https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1647035J .
