Cyropaedia: The Wisdom of Cyrus the Great AUTH-10439799 Pamela Sheingorn is Professor of

Pamela Sheingorn is Professor of Art at Baruch College

Published: 06/06/2013

The distinctive shape of Italy resembles a boot and Calabria is found near the toe of that boot in a sunny

found herself in the unenviable position of writing about a life as it was falling apart -- her own

Cyropaedia: The Wisdom of Cyrus the Great AUTH-10439799 Pamela Sheingorn is Professor ofCyropaedia is a biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Achaemenid Empire and the first Persian Empire. It is "a political romance, describing the education of the ideal ruler, trained to rule as a benevolent despot over his admiring and willing subjects." Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre known as mirrors for princes. In turn it was a strong influence upon the most well known but atypical of these,