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''Cyropaedia'' dibangkitkan kembali di [[Eropa Barat]] selama masa akhir [[Abad Pertengahan]] sebagai suatu makalah praktis mengenai kebajikan politik dan organisasi sosial.<ref name="Nadon">{{citation|last=Nadon|first=Christopher|title=Xenophon's Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia|location=Berkeley|publisher=UC Press|year=2001|isbn=0-520-22404-3}}</ref> Karya ini memberi pengaruh penting pada genre akhir Abad Pertengahan dan [[Renaissance]] yang dikenal sebagai "[[:en:Mirrors for princes|''mirrors of princes'' ("cermin para pangeran")]]", yang berupaya memberikan contoh kelakuan untuk mendidik orang muda sebagai para pemimpin masa depan.<ref>{{harvtxt|Nadon|2001|p=13}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Machiavelli's ''Prince'' and Its Forerunners|year=1938|publisher=Duke University Press|last=Gilbert|first=Allan}} p.12</ref> [[:en:Giovanni Pontano|Giovanni Pontano]], [[Bartolomeo Platina|Bartolomeo Sacchi]], [[:en:Leon Battista Alberti|Leon Battista Alberti]] dan [[:en:Baldassare Castiglione|Baldassare Castiglione]] semua memperlakukan Koresh sebagai suatu teladan kebajikan.<ref>{{harvtxt|Nadon|2001|pp=6–7}}</ref>
Karya ini terus dibaca dan dihormati luas dalam masa modern awal dan selama [[Abad Pencerahan]]. Karya Machiavelli, ''The Prince'', yang menandai titik balik menuju pemikiran politik modern, menggunakan genre ''mirror'' sebagai contoh, terutama sangat dipengaruhi oleh ''Cyropaedia'', dan menampilkan suatu bacaan Xenophon lebih rumit, nampaknya kritis terhadap pendekatan idealistik mengenai permukaan penggambaran Xenophon, sementara bacaan Xenophon memberi orang lain pesan-pesan yang lebih penting mengenai penggunaan tipuan oleh Koresh, dan bahaya orang-orang seperti itu bagi republik.<ref>{{harvtxt|Nadon|2001|pp=13–25}}</ref> Christopher Nadon menggambarkan Machiavelli sebagai "pembaca Xenophon yang paling terkenal dan paling fanatik".<ref name="Nadon6"/> Menurut [[:en:Leo Strauss|Leo Strauss]], Machiavelli merujuk kepada [[Xenophon]] lebih dari kombinasi penulis-penulis yang lebih terkenal seperti Plato, [[Aristoteles]], dan Cicero.<ref>{{Citation|title=Thoughts on Machiavelli|last=Strauss|first=Leo|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1958}} p.291</ref> {{Harvtxt|Gilbert|1938|p=236}} menulis: "Koresh dalam Xenophon adalah seorang pahlawan bagi banyak tokoh sastra pada abad keenam belas, tetapi bagi Machiavelli ia benar-benar hidup".
Di antara para penulis modern setelah Machiavelli, [[Montaigne]], [[Montesquieu]], [[Rousseau]], [[Francis Bacon|Bacon]], [[Jonathan Swift]], [[:en:Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Bolingbroke]], [[:en:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury|Shaftesbury]], [[Edward Gibbon]], dan [[Benjamin Franklin]] "semua setuju dengan pandangan klasik" mengenai nilai pentingnya Xenophon sebagai filsuf dan sejarawan. [[John Milton]] menyebut karya-karyanya ilahi, dan setara dengan Plato.<ref name=Nadon3/> [[Edmund Spenser]] dalam pendahuluannya pada ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'' mengatakan bahwa "Xenophon lebih disukai daripada Plato<!--, for that the one, in the exquisite depth of his judgement, formed a Commune welth, such as it should be; but the other in the person of Cyrus, and the Persians, fashioned a government, such as might best be: So much more profitable and gratious is doctrine by example, then by rule." Among military leaders, [[Gustavus Adolphus]] and [[James Wolfe]] were influenced by this work.<ref name=Nadon6/> The English philosopher [[Sir Thomas Browne]] entitled his discourse [[The Garden of Cyrus]] (1658) during the Protectorate of Cromwell, describing Cyrus as ''the splendid and regular planter'' and as an ideal Ruler.
The work was also frequently taken as a model for correct prose style in classical Attic Greek, mastery of which was part of the cultivation of learning and refinement among gentlemen in eighteenth century Europe and America. For example, [[Thomas Jefferson]] had two personal copies of the book in his library, possibly for this reason.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21747567|title=Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson|date=2013-03-11|newspaper=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-09-23}}</ref> In modern times, its reputation has declined, together with the study of the classics; it has been described as "surely one of the most tedious books to have survived from the ancient world,"<ref name="Cawkwell" /> a view countered by others, such as Potter, who found it "written in the most captivating, simple and elegant style imaginable."<ref>John Potter, ''Archaeologia Graeca, or The Antiquities of Greece'', Vol. II, p. 101 [https://books.google.com/books?id=aMkPAAAAYAAJ]</ref>
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