Hieron (Xenophon)

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Charles Soillot hands over his French translation of Xenophon's Hieron to Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy. Illumination in the dedication copy made around 1460 for the Duke (Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, Ms. IV 1264, fol. 1r)

Hieron is the title of a work by the Greek historian Xenophon . It is a conversation between the poet Simonides von Keos and the tyrant Hieron I of Syracuse about tyranny . In it Xenophon develops an ideal of monarchy , probably with a view to the contemporary tyrants of Syracuse.

literature

• GJD Aalders: Date and Intension of Xenophon's Hiero . In: Mnemosyne 6, 1953, pp. 208ff.