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Xenophon's Cyrus the Great : The Arts of Leadership and War by Xenophon; Larry Hedrick is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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This classic portrait of the ancient Persian king is “still the best book on leadership” (Peter F. Drucker).Cyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book about the greatest leader of his era. Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000 Jews from captivity; wrote mankind's first human rights charter; and ruled over those he had conquered with respect and benevolence.According to historian Will Durant, Cyrus the Great's military enemies knew that he was lenient, and they did not fight him with that desperate courage which men show when their only choice is “to kill or die.” As a result the Iranians regarded him as “The Father,” the Babylonians as “The Liberator,” the Greeks as the “Law-Giver,” and the Jews as the “Anointed of the Lord.”By freshening the leader's voice, style, and diction, Larry Hedrick has created a more contemporary Cyrus, and also contributes an introduction describing him and his times. A new generation of readers, including business executives and managers, military officers
Who reads Xenophon's Cyrus the Great : The Arts of Leadership and War?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Xenophon; Larry Hedrick
- Publisher
- Truman Talley Books/Saint Martin's Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429905312
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Business, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (513 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14