Xenophon - Samuel James Pease (essay date 1934)
Samuel James Pease (essay date 1934)
SOURCE: "Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 'The Compleat General'," in The Classical Journal, Vol. 29, no. 6, March, 1934, pp. 436-40.
[In the essay that follows, Pease advocates for the historical value of the Cyropaedia, claiming it as thorough documentation of ancient Greek military strategy; he ultimately dubs it "the first general military treatise ever written."]
Colonel Oliver L. Spaulding, Jr., in the June number of the Classical Journal, (XXVIII, 657-69), gives a list of ancient military writings, with a valuable appreciation of most of them. But Xenophon's Cyropaedia is very much more than "the amusement of his later years, the vehicle for his military fancies." Actually, the Cyropaedia is a work of unique military importance; it is in fact not only the earliest but the most exhaustive of all ancient military treatises; but its character has not been...
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