Plato's Cretan City:
A Historical Interpretation of the Laws
Glenn R. Morrow

With a new foreword by Charles H. Kahn

Paper | 1993 | $95.00 / £65.00 | ISBN: 9780691024844
648 pp. | 6 x 9

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Plato's Cretan City is a thorough investigation into the roots of Plato's Laws and a compelling explication of his ideas on legislation and social institutions. A dialogue among three travelers, the Laws proposes a detailed plan for administering a new colony on the island of Crete. In examining this dialogue, Glenn Morrow describes the contemporary Greek institutions in Athens, Crete, and Sparta on which Plato based his model city, and explores the philosopher's proposed regulations concerning property, the family, government, and the administration of justice, education, and religion. He approaches the Laws as both a living document of reform and a philosophical inquiry into humankind's highest earthly duty.

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"[A] landmark in Platonic scholarship. . . . Every informed interpretation of Plato's Laws in the last thirty years has built on the foundation that [Morrow] provided."--from the foreword

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• Classics
• Philosophy

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