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This paper compares ideas about leadership and good government found in Plato's dialogue The Statesman (Politikos) and Xenophon's fictionalised biography of Cyrus the Great, the Cyropaedia. It looks at shared themes in both works, especially the idea of the 'kairos', the importance of acting at the right time.
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This paper explores the connections between the political theorising of Plato and Xenophon.
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This page is a summary of: Plato’s Statesman and Xenophon’s Cyrus, June 2018, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004369085_021.
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