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“Anything forced is not beautiful.” The Cyropaedia or sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great the founder of Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. Xenophon of Athens (430-354 BC) was an Athenian philosopher, soldier and historian,he became a commander of the Ten Thousand at about 30 and has been described by the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge as “the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior.”.