Examines how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values and skills needed to lead the Athenian democracy.

This collection contains: Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens Xenophon's The Politeia of the Spartans The Constitution of the Athenians ascribed to Xenophon

Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.

Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the

This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; A