Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus by Tatum, James

Princeton Univ Pr, 1989-02. Hardcover. Good.

Princeton University Press, 1989. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0691067570

Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0691067570 . Foxing to top of textblock with some minor shelfwear. DJ has light shelfwear. ; "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… Read More

Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. 1989. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xix & 301 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient & Classical Studies).

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Dedication copy, inscribed on the dedication by Tatum to Harry Avery (to whom the book is dedicated). First edition, 1989. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 301 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Fine dust jacket, Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. This copy also has a photo-copy of Avery's letter to Tatum thanking him for the dedication loosely inserted.