Cyropaedia is a biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Achaemenid Empire and the first Persian Empire.
In turn it was a strong influence upon the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli\'s The Prince..
It is "a political romance, describing the education of the ideal ruler, trained to rule as a benevolent despot over his admiring and willing subjects." Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre known as mirrors for princes.
Cyropaedia is a biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Achaemenid Empire and the first Persian Empire