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  • ...ro''''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Ἱέρων, ''Hiéron'') is a minor work by [[Xenophon]], set as a [[dialogue]] between [[Hiero I of Syracuse|Hiero]], tyrant of [ ...y dominating others, but desire even more to be loved and honestly praised by those around them. <ref>Levy 2018, pp. 39, 47.</ref> Tyrants are thus trapp ...
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  • ...the Jury''''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους πρὸς τοὺς Δικαστάς|}}), by [[Xenophon of Athens]], is a [[Socratic dialogue]] about the legal defence that the ph ...it is better to die before the onset of [[senility]] than to escape death by humbling oneself to an unjust persecution. ...
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  • ...crates' conversations and activities along with occasional commentary from Xenophon. ''Memorabilia'' was particularly influential in [[Cynicism (philosophy)|Cy Memorabilia is also known by its Latin title ''Commentarii'' and a variety of English translations (Reco ...
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  • ...[[Xenophon]] includes him in the inner circle of Socrates' followers.<ref>Xenophon, ''Memorabilia'', 1.2.48, 3.11.17,</ref> He appears in [[Plato]]'s ''[[Phae ...epistles]] attributed to Socrates' followers.{{sfn|Nails|2002}} Two short works are also attributed to him in the [[Greek Anthology]], a couplet on [[Sopho ...
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  • ...his life there.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=611}} An appreciative obituary notice by [[William Gunion Rutherford|WG Rutherford]] appeared in the ''[[The Classic ==Works== ...
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  • ...ly through brief descriptions by classical writers and was "an unusual man by all accounts",<ref>[[Debra Nails]], ''The People of Plato'' (2002), p 86.</ ...e, all of whom were probably well acquainted with him: [[Aristophanes]], [[Xenophon]], and [[Plato]]. Considered together, these sources suggest that Chaereph ...
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  • ...ek from 1886 till 1890. In 1892 the degree of Litt.D. was conferred on him by Dublin University. He died on 1 Dec. 1896, at 20 Redcliffe Square, London, ...on to several school editions of portions of [[Cicero]], [[Thucydides]], [[Xenophon]] and [[Plutarch]], he published an expurgated text of [[Aristophanes]] wit ...
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  • Montreux signed many of his works with the [[anagram]] "Ollénix du Mont Sacré". ==Works== ...
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  • {{Short description|1841 master's thesis by Søren Kierkegaard}} ...0Kierkegaard%20and%20Socrates.pdf "Reflections on Kierkegaard's Socrates"] by H. Sarf, ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', 1983.</ref> ...
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  • {{Short description|Work by Xenophon}} {{About|the dialogue by Xenophon|the similarly named treatise attributed to Aristotle|Economics (Aristotle)} ...
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  • ...o-[[Philip II of Macedon|Philip]] general with a large and competent army. Xenophon quotes Jason as claiming: ...no one serves unless he is able to endure as severe toils as I myself.<ref>Xenophon Hellenika 6.1.5</ref> ...
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  • ...r, whose name is not recorded in the surviving fragments, is usually known by scholars simply as the "Oxyrhynchus historian".<ref name="Meister2003">{{ci ...ing events from 411 BCE to 394 BCE, much like [[Xenophon]]'s ''[[Hellenica#Xenophon's Hellenica|Hellenica]]'' ([[Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 28|a fragment]] of which h ...
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  • ...eloponnesian War]]'' and some of his other works as well as the works of [[Xenophon]] including ''A History of Greece''. He is buried in [[Chester Cathedral]] with a monument by [[Thomas Banks (sculptor)|Thomas Banks]].<ref>Dictionary of British Sculpto ...
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  • ...llection/artist/9479/|access-date=27 February 2025|title=John Spooner – 49 works|publisher=[[National Gallery of Victoria]]}}</ref> the [[State Library Vict ...Kininmonth]], Martin Feil, Stewart W. Franks and Bryan Leyland; published by Kelpie Press in 2013. ...
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  • ...ntury BC. The earliest ones are preserved in the works of [[Plato]] and [[Xenophon]] and all involve [[Socrates]] as the [[protagonist]]. These dialogues, and ...h in Plato's and [[Xenophon|Xenophon's]] work, usually is [[Socrates]] who by means of a kind of interrogation tries to find out more about the other per ...
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  • {{short description|Book by Iris Murdoch}} '''''The Sea, The Sea''''' is a novel by [[Iris Murdoch]]. Published in 1978, it was her nineteenth novel. It won th ...
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  • One of the definitions of techne led by Aristotle, for example, is "a state involving true [[reason]] concerned wit ...itle=Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors, Their Careers and Extant Works, Introduction, Sources |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pe ...
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  • [[File:Jean-Baptiste Gail by Julien-Léopold Boilly.jpg|thumb|Jean-Baptiste Gail]] ...ript]]s in the royal [[library]] over the heads of the candidates proposed by the other conservators, an appointment which made him many enemies. Gail be ...
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  • ...ppe.jpg|thumb|Portrait from ''[[Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum]]'' (1553) by [[Guillaume Rouillé]]]] ...In [[Xenophon]]'s ''[[Symposium (Xenophon)|Symposium]]'', she is described by [[Antisthenes]] as "the most difficult, harshest, painful, ill-tempered" wi ...
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  • ...BERS OF SUCCESSION; THEY ARE NOT USED IN GREECE -->| name = Xenophon Zolotas | birth_name = Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas ...
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