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Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-30 - Publisher: Penguin UK
One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize the Persian
Language: la
Pages: 94
Pages: 94
Type: BOOK - Published: 1884 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 359
Pages: 359
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advant
Language: en
Pages: 12
Pages: 12
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the
Language: en
Pages: 413
Pages: 413
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; A