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. "Hiero" is a dialogue in which the poet Simonides questions the tyrant Hiero 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.

Hiero: A New Translation (24) (Studies in Classics, V. 24)

Literature & Fiction

Xénophon

Doty, Ralph

World Literature

Edwin Mellen Pr

<p>This book examines the controversy between the early Stoics and the Skeptics of the Academy regarding the criterion of truth. For two hundred years the two schools debated the possibility of verifying the accuracy of our perceptions, and, in the course of argument, each altered its position, adopting some of the arguments of its opponents, until a compromise was reached in the so-called «eclectic movement.» The book approaches this controversy from the standpoint of the history of ideas to show it as less a rivalry between schools than a debate within a shared tradition. As the first full-length treatment of the criterion controversy to utilize this approach, it clarifies more than ever before the community of thought between Stoa and Academy.</p>

The Criterion of Truth (American University Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

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