Excerpt from A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece, Vol. 5 Epitome of the text - 2. The Cyropaedia a historical romance. Character of its hero. Its historical element, as tested by other authorities. Cyrus. - 3. Cyaxares. Croesus. Other secondary per sons. Geographical element. Primitive Persian constitution. Mili tary system - 4. Miscellaneous customs. Religious worship. Persian art of war, compared with that of Sparta. Composition and style of the work. Their merits. Their defects - 5. Dialogue. Its diffuse ness. Homeric commonplace - 6. Difi'useness of the narrative. Its romantic element. Episode of Abradatas and Panthea. - 7. Judged by the standard of modern love-romance. Other pathetic passages. Descriptions of battles. Speeches - 8. Delineation of character. Cy-v rus. Llis t'acetious humour. His boyhood. His death. - 9. Cyaxares. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.