# Cyropaedia

Cyropaedia by 432 BCE-351? BCE Xenophon has 118,994 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Xenophon.

- **Author:** [432 BCE-351? BCE Xenophon](https://musael.com/books/authors/432-bce-351-bce-xenophon.md) (-430–-354)
- **Original language:** Classical Greek
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 118,994
- **Reading time:** 7 h 56 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 12 h 48 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 9 h 55 min | 20 days |
| 250 wpm | 7 h 56 min | 16 days |
| 300 wpm | 6 h 37 min | 14 days |

## Read or listen

Cyropaedia is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2085

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 118,994
- Chapters: 8
- Dialogue: 49% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 24.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2085 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145374
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyropaedia
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2085

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/cyropaedia