The Hiero Of Xenophon

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959622
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises written by Xenophon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 throne, and later wrote a wide range of works on history, politics and philosophy. These six treatises offer his informed insights into the nature of leadership. In the dialogue between the poet Simonides and Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, Xenophon provides a consummate consideration of the burdens of being an absolute dictator and the superior happiness of the private man. Elsewhere, his biography of King Agesilaus II of Sparta depicts the author's patron as a model of piety, justice, courage and wisdom, while other texts consider the essential qualities of the cavalry commander, analyse the skills of the horseman and the hunter, and advance a bold economic plan for democratic Athens.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hiero of Xenophon written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497514164
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiero written by Xenophon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Once upon a time Simonides the poet paid a visit to Hiero the "tyrant," (1) and when both obtained the leisure requisite, Simonides began this conversation: (1) Or, "came to the court of the despotic monarch Hiero." For the "dramatis personae" see Dr. Holden's Introduction to the "Hieron" of Xenophon. Would you be pleased to give me information, Hiero, upon certain matters, as to which it is likely you have greater knowledge than myself? (2) (2) Or, "would you oblige me by explaining certain matters, as to which your knowledge naturally transcends my own?" And pray, what sort of things may those be (answered Hiero), of which I can have greater knowledge than yourself, who are so wise a man? I know (replied the poet) that you were once a private person, (3) and are now a monarch. It is but likely, therefore, that having tested both conditions, (4) you should know better than myself, wherein the life of the despotic ruler differs from the life of any ordinary person, looking to the sum of joys and sorrows to which flesh is heir. (3) Or, "a common citizen," "an ordinary mortal," "a private individual." (4) Or, "having experienced both lots in life, both forms of existence."

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519526052
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiero, Or the Tyrant written by Xenophon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xenophon of Athens was a Greek poet, historian, soldier and philosopher, living at a time of momentous events in Ancient Greek history. He wrote about the philosophy of Socrates, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and the Persian expedition that formed the basis of his most famous work, Anabasis. In addition to his own works, he influenced the account of the Peloponnesian War written by the famous Greek historian Thucydides. Although he was recognized as a great writer and poet in his lifetime, Xenophon's involvement with Spartan politics and fighting led to his exile from Athens, and his association with Socrates probably did not help. His short treatise on Sparta's government is considered one of the first examples of political philosophy.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiero written by Xenophon and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since classical antiquity, Hiero has been the most popular of Xenophon's minor works. This new critical edition clears up manuscript errors from the Marchant Loeb edition of 1920, and has a contemporary facing-paged translation which makes the language much more accessible to the current reader. about the pleasures of the tyrant's life. It is a study of the form of government called tyranny and an ethical treatise as well.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Xenophōntos Hierōn ē tyrannikos written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781343420519
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hieron of Xenophon written by Xenophon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603352X
Total Pages : 359 pages
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Download or read book On Tyranny written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève, and the complete correspondence between the two. This revised and expanded edition introduces important corrections throughout and expands Strauss’s restatement of his position in light of Kojève’s commentary to bring it into conformity with the text as it was originally published in France.

Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Hiero written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521581540
Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book Xenophon on Government written by Xenophon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under Xenophon's name alongside the other two in the manuscripts. The works represent three distinct types of government (the rule of one man in tyranny and kingship, the rule of law in the mixed constitution of the Spartans, and the rule of the masses in the Athenian democracy), but there are common features throughout. This volume presents an introduction discussing Xenophon's views on government in the context of his general political thought, drawing particularly on his Socratic work Memorabilia, and a commentary on the Greek text of each work aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and graduate students.