The Three Choruses of Plato's Laws and their Function in the Dialogue: A New Approach.
This article questions a longtime credo concerning Plato's Laws , namely that the three choruses introduced in Book 2 are institutions of the dialogue's political project. A detailed analysis of relevant passages shows that the evidence is insufficent. Rather, it is argued, this part of Book 2 is es...
| Published in: | Phronesis Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 335 - 366 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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