On Tyranny

Leo Strauss

About this book

This title is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue 'Hiero', or 'Tyrannicus', in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantes of exercising tyranny.

Subjects

  • correspondence
  • despotism
  • government
  • hieron (xenophon)
  • hiero xenophon
  • philosophy
  • political science
  • political science, philosophy
  • strauss, leo, 1899-1973
  • tyrannie et sagesse (kojève, alexandre)
  • water-supply
  • xenophon
  • xenophon, hiero