 Since he apparently was quite familiar with the younger Cyrus and his attendants, he had ample opportunity to learn the court remembrances of Cyrus the Great.When Xenophon wrote his "Cyropaedia" (the Education of Cyrus) several years later, the "Histories" of Herodotus had already been published.Regarding the upbringing of Cyrus the Great, Herodotus said that he was choosing one of the stories he had heard, but that there were three other stories he did not choose to relate (1.95).