Hunting
event · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Hunting the idea
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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.
The state bears the expense of the hunting for the reason that the training it gives seems to be the best preparation for war itself.
and before long he had exhausted the supply of animals in the park by hunting and shooting and killing them, so that Astyages was no longer able to collect animals for him.
As for the hunting spears, though he did not show them to him, he laid them down all blood-stained where he thought his grandfather would see them.
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 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.
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;
On Hunting
The divinely sanctioned and technically structured practice of pursuing game with hounds and nets.
After this let the net-keeper keep guard, and let the huntsman take the hounds and go to the place in the hunting ground where the hare may be lurking;
The first pursuit, therefore, that a young man just out of his boyhood should take up is hunting, and afterwards he should go on to the other branches of education, provided he has means.
Therefore I charge the young not to despise hunting or any other schooling.