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Cyrus: A Forgotten Poet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2012

PIETER W. VAN DER HORST
PIETER W. VAN DER HORST
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PIETER W. VAN DER HORST is Emeritus Professor in Early Christianity and Ancient Judaism of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. pwvdh@xs4all.nl
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Upon seeing or hearing the name Cyrus, most readers will probably think of the famous Persian king, well known from Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the prophet Isaiah's enthusiastic message about this king as the one who set the Jewish people free from their exile in Babylon. This article, however, will deal with a Cyrus who lived some thousand years later, c.400–70 CE. Cyrus of Panopolis was well known in his day as politician, as (re)builder of Constantinople, as bishop, and as poet. I will first present a short biographical sketch of this remarkable man and thereafter dwell a bit longer upon his poetry.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , October 2012 , pp. 193 - 201
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2012

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