Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Leo Strauss’ Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy / Timothy W. Burns -- 1 On “The Origin of the Idea of Natural Right” in Natural Right and History / Gregory A. McBrayer -- 2 Reading Thucydides with Leo Strauss / Clifford Orwin -- 3 On Leo Strauss’ “Notes on Lucretius” / James H. Nichols -- 4 Leo Strauss’ “The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy” / Timothy W. Burns -- 5 On “Classic Natural Right” in Natural Right and History / Devin Stauffer -- 6 “On Collingwood’s Philosophy of History” and “On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy” / Jonathan F. Culp -- 7 Learning to Love Aristophanes: Reading Aristophanes with Strauss / Christopher Baldwin -- 8 On Leo Strauss’ Presentation of Xenophon’s Political Philosophy in “The Problem of Socrates” / Richard S. Ruderman -- 9 “Through the Keyhole”: Leo Strauss’ Rediscovery of Classical Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Constitution of the Lacedaemonians / Richard S. Ruderman -- 10 A Guide to the Study of Leo Strauss’ On Tyranny / Eric Buzzetti -- 11 Socratic Rhetoric and Political Philosophy: Leo Strauss on Xenophon’s Symposium / Dustin Gish -- 12 Strauss on the Memorabilia: Xenophon’s Socrates / Amy L. Bonnette -- 13a The Difference between Socrates and Xenophon in Leo Strauss’ Account of Xenophon’s Anabasis / Devin Stauffer -- 13b Divine Justice in Strauss’ Anabasis / Timothy W. Burns -- 14 Leo Strauss on the Politics of Plato’s Republic / Linda R. Rabieh -- 15 Philosophy and Law: On the Gravest Question in Plato’s Minos / Robert Goldberg -- 16 An Introduction to Strauss’ “An Untitled Lecture on Plato’s Euthyphron” / Wayne Ambler -- 17 Eristics, Protreptics, and (Dialectics): Strauss on Plato’s Euthydemos / Michael Rosano -- 18 Strauss on the Apology and Crito / John C. Koritansky -- 19 The Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws / Mark J. Lutz -- 20 Aristotle’s Political Science, Common Sense, and the Socratic Tradition in The City and Man / Susan D. Collins -- Index of Proper Names -- Subject Index.

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Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought offers clear, accessible essays to assist a new generation of readers in their introduction to Strauss’ writings on the ancients, and to deepen the understanding of those who have already benefitted from his work. Strauss rediscovered esoteric writing. His careful explications of works by classical thinkers— of Socratic political philosophy, pre-Socratic philosophers, and of poets tragic and comic—have therefore opened those works up in a way that had been lost for centuries. Yet Strauss’ writings, especially his later works, make considerable demands on any reader. These essays are written by scholars who bring to bear on their reading of Strauss many years of study.