WorkXenophon

Cyropaedia [The Education of Cyrus]

Cyropaedia [The Education of Cyrus] (c. 370 BCE)

Xenophon (c. 430–c. 354 BCE) · c. 370 BCE

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Documented 1842–1845

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

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1842CyropaediaAttested
“While here I have been reading (only in translation, alas!) the Cyropaedia and other works of Xenophon”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Canton, 12th May 1842
Explicit 'I have been reading... the Cyropaedia and other works of Xenophon'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York4records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1842—

Letter to Richard F. Fuller

p65

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“While here I have been reading (only in translation, alas!) the Cyropaedia and other works of Xenophon and some dramas of Euripides, and, were envy ever worth our while, I should deeply envy those who can with convenience gain access to the Greek mind in its proper garb.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Same passage, formerly a separate row (r1490): Fuller confirms reading "other works of Xenophon" beyond the Cyropaedia without naming them specifically; a related letter identifies one of these as the Memorabilia, Xenophon's writings on Socrates.

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p55

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“It pleases me that you feel so truly what is told of Panthea. I believe there is nothing writ that is more to my mind. Can you doubt the possibility of such feelings?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller alludes to the Panthea episode from Xenophon's Cyropaedia, which she had discussed and summarized in her recently published Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

1845—

Letter to Richard F. Fuller

p164

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“I shall get out a 2d edition here before long, I hope, and wish you would translate for me and send those other parts of the story of Panthea you thought I might like.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller asks Richard to 'translate for me and send those other parts of the story of Panthea you thought I might like,' requesting additional passages from Xenophon's Cyropaedia for possible use in a second edition of Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Panthea, the devoted wife of Abradatas, is unique to Xenophon's Cyropaedia and serves as Fuller's prime example of womanly virtue.

1845—

Letter to Anna Loring

p170

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“I have had a still time to read the translation of the story of Panthea, in which Richard's pen was aided by your Mother and father and you as judges and reformers.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p49

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“but in the Cyropedia has given, in the picture of Panthea, a view of woman which no German picture can surpass”

Inferred Named explicitly as 'Cyropedia'; Panthea is the central female character of this romance.

“It is from the romance in which Xenophon, the chivalrous Greek, presents his ideal of what human nature should be. The generals of Cyrus had taken captive a princess...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

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On Xenophon, Cyrus, and Socrates

p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9, p10, p11

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“But in his Ideal I don't admire him quite so much as in himself [...] Cyrus in the romance is great wise, brave, gentle, and politic but except in a few sweet traits copied direct from life, 'frigid' as his companions say.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Xenophon, Cyrus, and Socrates." Houghton Library, Harvard University.