Cyrus the Younger — Journal

Paradise

The Greek word παραδεισος (paradeisos) first appears in the writings of Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BC), for instance in his ‘Anabasis’ (c.370 BC), where the author refers to the park attached to Cyrus the Younger’s palace at Celaenae near the sauce of the Maeander river in Phrygia.