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Review title: not what you may think...
Product review: My apologies to Xenophon, those who liked this book, and those who were intrigued by a book written about Cyrus the Great just 150 years after his reign, but I considered the book a waste and difficult to read as well. Beware, the book is more of a historical fiction than a historical document, like Herodotus or Thucydides. I distinctly felt as if Xenophon was distorting reality and trying to portray Cyrus in idealistic Greek terms, educated, compassionate, balanced, egalitarian, etc, almost as if Xenophon was trying to rehabilitate the Persian Empire's reputation following its defeat at the hands of the Greeks one hundred years earlier. If you like homilies this is the book for you, but if you want to learn more about a great ruler who rapidly and with great skill and talent created a vast empire, there are probably better books to read.
