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

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.