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The Sequence of Forms of Government in Plato's ‘Republic’ compared with the Actual History of Greek Cities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Extract

Ineed scarcely remind the Society, for the most part, of the subject of the Republic of Plato, the longest and in some respects the most important of his dialogues. But as it is as well not to take too much for granted, I will briefly describe its purport. Nearly all points of the Platonic philosophy are treated or glanced at in the Republic, but the ostensible subject is an inquiry into the nature and meaning of Justice.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1891

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page 55 note 1 Plat, . Legg. iii. 676Google Scholar, κ.τ.λ.

page 61 note 1 So many of the Socratic circle withdrew from Athens after the death of heir master that it looks as if in the zeal of the restored democracy for ancient orthodoxy his school did not feel themselves safe.

page 62 note 1 Τς δ ρχς πσας τοῖς ρχαοις πολταις πνεμον τοὺς δ ξνους τοὺς π Γλωνος πολιτευθντας οὐκ ἠξουν μετχειν τατης τς τιμς, εἴτε οὐκ ξονς κρναντες εἴτε κα πιστοντες.—Diod. Sic. xi. 72.

page 63 note 1 Πνθαγρας … πρεν εἰς Κρτωνα τς 'Iταλας, κκεῖ νμονς θες τοῖς 'Iταλιώταις δοξσθη σὺν τοῖς μαθηταῖς, οῒ πορ τοὺς τριακοσονς ὔντες ᾠκονμονν ἄριστα τ πολιτικ, ὥστε σχεδν ριστοκραταν εἶναι τν πνλιτεαν.—Diog. Laertius, viii. 3.

page 64 note 1 There is another reading in Xenophon, ρχαους for 'Aχα’ων, but the Achæan constitutions were not purely democratic.

page 65 note 1 The line of Tyrtæus: Φιλοχρηματα Σπάρταν λεῖ, ἄλλο δἒ οὐδν is so true that it was perhaps written after the disease had appeared.

page 67 note 1 ‘Whoever has a right to take part in the judicial and executive government in a state, him we call a citizen.’—Arist, . Pol. iii. 1.Google Scholar.