The sources of Cyropaedia
Where Cyropaedia names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the book that passage stands in. 20 citations across 4 books, drawn from 19 named sources; 2 of those sources stand in the library. 1 work in the library quotes it back.
18 authority 1 neutral 1 refuted Of the 20 citations in Cyropaedia, 1 argues against its source.
the sources most drawn on
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Zeus 2 citations · 7 passages
The repeated formula invokes Zeus as a divine witness or authority in speech.
By Zeus, said he, this is no easy or simple question that you ask now, my son;
book 1 · divine invocation ¶ -
Heracles 1 citation
The exclamation invokes Heracles as a divine or heroic authority in speech.
O Heracles, father, said Cyrus with a laugh, what a man you say I must become!
book 1 · divine invocation ¶ -
The laws the laws 1 citation
The laws are cited as an authoritative force shaping citizens' justice.
At any rate, fathers develop self-control in their sons by making them weep, and teachers impress good lessons upon their pupils in the same way, and the laws, too, turn the citizens to justice by making them weep.
book 2 · invokes law as pedagogical authority ¶
named once
16 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- book 1 7 sources
- Median fashion · Persian custom of bodily decorum · Persian laws · Persian principle of equality of rights · Principle of tyranny that one should have more than all · Rule that lawful is right and unlawful is wrong · The gods and auspices
- book 2 3 sources
- Divine ordinance of command · Persian and Median tutelary gods · Sovereign Zeus
- book 3 5 sources
- Armenian-Chaldaean covenants · agreements made by Astyages · divine grant of judicial power · divine prosperity of Cyrus' mission · favourable sacrificial omens
- book 7 1 source
- Oracle at Delphi
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2 · all from one workThe harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the book that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 2 citations
Xenophon's Cyropaedia is cited neutrally as the source reporting Cyrus's demand before attacking.
We are informed by Xenophon, that when Cyrus went into the country of the Armenians, he sent messengers to the kind, to demand the tribute and number of troops, which had been stipulated by treaty.
ch. 33 ¶
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
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