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Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Xenophon
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-30 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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
The Hiero of Xenophon
Language: la
Pages: 94
Authors: Xenophon
Categories: Despotism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1884 - Publisher:

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On Tyranny
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Leo Strauss
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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
Xenophon on Government
Language: en
Pages: 12
Authors: Xenophon
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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
The Shorter Writings
Language: en
Pages: 413
Authors: Xenophon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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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