High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a "partly fictional biography" of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The Latinized title Cyropaedia derives from Greek K rou paide a (Κύρου παιδεία), meaning "The Education of Cyrus." Aspects of it would become a model...