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The Shorter Writings

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Shorter Writings

By Xenophon

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About the book

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays that reveal these works to be masterful achievements by a serious thinker of the first rank who raises important moral, political, and philosophical questions. Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters. The Agesilaos is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant recounts a searching dialogue be...Show more

Ancient, classical and medieval texts

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9781501718496

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

2018

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Hardcover

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