Xenophon's Cyrus The Great: The Arts of Leadership and War

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Cyrus, a great leader of wisdom and virtue, created 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. A hundred years later an admiring Xenophon of Athens wrote a narrative of Cyrus and his many military leadership principles at war and at peace. The Iranians came to regard 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 that Xenophon ascribed to Cyrus, and with a new introduction, Larry Hedrick has fashioned a more immediate Cyrus. A new generation of readers, including executives, managers, and military officers, can now learn from Cyrus's unparalleled leadership principles in Xenophon's classic narrative.