In classical antiquity, the Cyropaedia was considered the masterpiece of a widely respected and studied author.[15] Polybius, Cicero, Tacitus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Quintilian, Aulus Gellius and Longinus thought highly of Xenophon and his work.[16] Classical authors believed that he composed the Cyropaedia in response to the Republic of Plato or vice versa, and Plato's Laws seems to allude to the Cyropaedia.[17] Among classical leaders, Scipio Aemilianus is said to have carried a copy with him at all times;[18] it was also a favorite of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.[19]
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