On Tyranny 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 disadvantages of exercising tyranny.
This revised and Expanded Edition introduces important corrections through.
Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss\'s commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Koj ve, and the complete Correspondence between the two.
On Tyranny 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 disadvantages of exercising tyranny