Hunting
event · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
hunting · chase · game · hunt · hunts · quarry · the finest invention
in the texts
Cyropaedia
A disciplined activity that trains courage and endurance for war and becomes a field where Cyrus shows ambition, risk-taking, generosity, and leadership.
said Cyrus.
In this way Cyrus often chattered on.
All these lessons Cyrus eagerly learned.
Orations
The activity of pursuing and confronting wild beasts, praised by the good king as training for war and character, distinguished from the risk-free Persian version.
and he holds hunting to be the finest invention, and delights in it most of all, by which the body becomes more robust, the soul more brave, and all the arts of war are practiced.
For those men, having enclosed the beasts in parks, slew them whenever they desired, as though in a prison, so as neither to toil in seeking nor again to run any risk, the beasts being feeble and enslaved;
For he must ride and run, and withstand many of the strong beasts, and bear heat and endure cold, and often make trial of hunger and thirst, accustoming himself through his eagerness to endure with pleasure—yet not the Persian sort of hunting.