Plato - Laws

Plato

Laws

Plato

Laws

Translated

With Introduction and Notes

By

C. D. C. Reeve

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Contents

The page numbers in curly braces {} correspond to the print edition of this title.

In this ebook, the Stephanus numbers are embedded in the text, enclosed in square brackets.

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Plato (omitted in notes)

Translations of these in the notes Lg. asideare drawn (sometimes with minor silent modifications) from J. Cooper (ed.), Plato: Complete Works (Indianapolis, 1997); in the case of works marked , translations are from my Hackett editions. A * indicates that the work is pseudo-Platonic.

Translations of these in the notes are my own and, in the case of works marked , are drawn from editions in the New Hackett Aristotle Series.

Herodotus

{xix} Hesiod

Homer

Thucydides

Other Abbreviations

Those marked are particularly recommended to the general reader.

Anderson = J. Anderson, Hunting in the Ancient World (Berkeley, 1985).

Barker = A. Barker, Greek Musical Writings I: The Musician and His Art (Cambridge, 1984).

Beck = F. Beck, Greek Education 450350 B.C. (London, 1964).

Bobonich-1 = C. Bobonich, Platos Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics (Oxford, 2002).

Bobonich-2 = C. Bobonich, (ed.), Platos Laws: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010).

Braunlich = A. Braunlich, To the Right in Homer and Attic Greek, American Journal of Philology 57 (1936): 245260.

{xx} Brisson = L. Brisson, Soul and State in Platos Laws , in R. Barney, T. Brennan, and C. Brittain (eds.), Plato and the Divided Self (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 281307.

Brisson-Pradeau-1 = L. Brisson and J-F. Pradeau, Plato Les Lois, Livres I VI (Paris, 2006).

Brisson-Pradeau-2 = L. Brisson and J-F. Pradeau, Plato Les Lois, Livres VII XII (Paris, 2006).

Brumbaugh = R. Brumbaugh, Platos Mathematical Imagination: The Mathematical Passages in the Dialogues and Their Interpretation (Bloomington, 1954).

Bud = E. des Places and A. Dis, Platon Les Lois , 4 vols. (Paris, 1951, 1956).

Burkert = W. Burkert, Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA, 1985).

Burnyeat & Frede = M. Burnyeat and M. Frede, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter (Oxford, 2015).

Bury-1 = R. Bury, Plato: Laws , 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 1926).

Bury-2 = R. Bury, Two Notes on the Laws , Classical Review (1948): 108109.

Calhoun = G. Calhoun, Athenian Clubs in Politics and Litigation (Austin, 1913).

Campbell = D. Campbell, Greek Lyric , 5 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 19821993).

Carone = G. Carone, Teleology and Evil in Laws 10, Review of Metaphysics (1994): 275298.

Clegg = J. Clegg, Platos Vision of Chaos, Classical Quarterly (1976): 5261.

David-1 = E. David, The Spartan Sussitia and Platos Laws , American Journal of Philology 99 (1978): 486495.

David-2 = E. David, Hunting in Spartan Consciousness and Society, Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views XXXVII (1993): 393413.

David-3 = E. David, Sparta and the Politics of Nudity, in S. Hodkinson and A. Powell (eds.), Sparta: The Body Politic (Swansea, 2010), pp. 136163.