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The Shorter Writings by Xenophon & Gregory A. McBrayer is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>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. </b></p><p>Five of these shorter writings are unmistakably devoted to political matters. <i>The Agesilaos</i> is a eulogy of a Spartan king, and the <i>Hiero, or the Skilled Tyrant</i> r
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Xenophon & Gregory A. McBrayer
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501718519
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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