Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises (Penguin Classics)

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One among Socrates’ Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger’s campaign to snatch the Persian throne, and later wrote a variety of works on history, politics and philosophy. These six treatises offer his informed insights into the nature of leadership. Within 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 very best happiness of the private man. Somewhere else, his biography of King Agesilaus II of Sparta depicts the creator’s patron as a model of piety, justice, courage and wisdom, at the same time as other texts imagine the crucial qualities of the cavalry commander, analyse the skills of the horseman and the hunter, and advance a bold economic plan for democratic Athens.

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