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Simonides the poet asks the ruler Hiero what he can know that a private person cannot: how the life of a despot compares with an ordinary man's in its pleasures and pains. Xenophon set this imaginary dialogue around 474 B.C., between Simonides of Ceos and Hieron of Syracuse and Gela. H. G. Dakyns's English version carries footnotes that offer alternative renderings of the Greek. Xenophon was an Athenian pupil of Socrates who spent years in exile.
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- Xenophon
- Reading time
- About 70 minutes
- Pages
- 47
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Political Philosophy
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