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grbs-15729	Takakjy, Laura Chason	Xenophon the Literary Critic: The Poetics and Politics of Praise in Hiero	2016	25	.pdf	application/pdf	9192	398	62	Of course, the tyrant’s woe was a fairly popular trope in itself outside of poetic contexts.21 But in epinician Hiero is portrayed as dis- tressed by either metaphorical or physical sickness.22 In Pythian 3, Pindar suggests that Hiero has suffered a physical affliction (63–67), and in Pythian 1, Pindar also draws comparisons be- tween Hiero and Philoctetes (50), the famously sick Greek hero in the Trojan cycle.23 20 For the idea that Hiero’s chief desire is to be loved see Strauss, On Tyranny 91; C. Nadon, Xenophon’s Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia (Berkeley 2001) 147. 21 49–73 Hiero’s historical reputation for unscrupulous military action takes center stage in Xenophon’s dialogue.6 Hiero has been approached in a variety of ways.	cache/grbs-15729.pdf	txt/grbs-15729.txt