The Cyropaedia is Xenophon\'s partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great.
However, unlike most "mirrors of princes," and like The Prince , whether.
In turn it was a strong influence upon the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli\'s The Prince , which was an important influence in the rejection of medieval political thinking, and the development of modern politics.
Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre known as mirrors for princes.
The Cyropaedia is Xenophon\'s partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great