Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great

Lynette Mitchell

Chapter 1 in Fictional Leaders, 2013, pp 7-17 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the final years of the fifth century BC, the Athenians were involved in a long war with Sparta, which they eventually lost in 404. Democracy was replaced by a brutal and violent oligarchy imposed by the Spartans, although within months the democrats had ousted the regime of the so-called ‘Thirty Tyrants’ and democracy was restored. And yet democracy and the democratic ideal had suffered during the long years of war; particularly from among the Athenian intelligentsia there were, at the end of the fifth century BC and the beginning of the fourth, demands for new ways of conceptualising constitutional rule.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Constitutional Rule; Leadership Study; Democratic Ideal; Senior Civil Servant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137272751_2

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