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Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War

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In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens’ story about Cyrus the Great’s military campaigns used to be published. Now, a century later, a a lot more accessible edition of one in all history’s most ordinary and successful leaders is emerging.

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 used to be lenient, and they didn’t fight him with that desperate courage which men show when their only choice is “to kill or die.” Because of this 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 voice, style and diction of Cyrus, Larry Hedrick has created a more latest Cyrus. A new generation of readers, including business executives and managers, military officers, and government officials, can now find out about and get pleasure from Cyrus the Great’s ordinary achievements, which exceeded all other leaders’ all through antiquity.

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