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grbs-3931	Sage, Paula Winsor	Tradition, Genre, and Character Portrayal: Cyropaedia 8.7 and Anabasis 1.9	1991	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8256	316	52	The allusion to this rhetorical genre has a twofold effect: first, it brings the deaths of the two Cyruses into closer intertextual relationship with each other than would result from the direct comparison at An. 1.9.1 alone, making it more difficult for an audience to hear one account of Cyrus' death without thinking of the other, regardless of which account Xenophon wrote first, or which the reader encounters first (ef Conte 29); second, although neither passage is technically an encomium or an epitaphios, the allusion in each case is sufficient to create the impression of a eulogy or funeral speech. He adopts for these accounts narrative techniques that, on the surface, appear very different: at the conclusion of the Cyropaedia, Cyrus the Great, im­ mediately before his death, summarizes his accomplishments in direct speech; when Cyrus the Younger dies, early in the Anabasis, Xenophon interrupts his third-person account of the battle at Cunaxa to summarize his virtues.	cache/grbs-3931.pdf	txt/grbs-3931.txt