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Book Synopsis"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 Israe
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xiii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xvii*Chapter One. The Classic as Footnote, pg. 3*Chapter Two. The Rise of a Novel, pg. 36*Chapter Three. The Curious Return of Cambyses, pg. 75*Chapter Four. The Grandson of Astyages, pg. 97*Chapter Five. The Envy of Uncle Cyaxares, pg. 115*Chapter Six. Dialectical Imperialism: Tigranes and the Sophist of Armenia, pg. 134*Chapter Seven. In the Face of the Enemy: A Meeting with Croesus of Lydia, pg. 146*Chapter Eight. The Uses of Eros and the Hero, pg. 163*Chapter Nine. The Economy of Empire, pg. 189*Chapter Ten. Revision, pg. 215*NOTES, pg. 243*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 277*INDEX, pg. 289*INDEX LOCORUM, pg. 295
