No. XLVII (2016)
Articles

Kingdom versus Empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

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  • Ivan Jordović
Ivan Jordović
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1647035J

Published 01.12.2016

Keywords

  • Xenophon,
  • kingdom,
  • empire,
  • Cyropaedia

How to Cite

Jordović, I. (2016). Kingdom versus Empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies, (XLVII), 35–53. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC1647035J

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Abstract

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.
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