The Historic Model of Plato's Stateman in Politikos

Mogens Hermann Hansen

The Historic Model of Plato's Stateman in Politikos

SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History

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Abstract

In Politikos Plato draws a picture of the true statesman, a picture that hasbaffled several of the scholars who have analysed the dialogue, because it appears tobe very abstract and remote from what we know about the development of the politicalorganization of the poleis in the Archaic and Classical periods. In this article I arguethat there is a clear historical background to the person whom Plato calls a statesman,viz., the famous legislators of the Archaic period, in particular Lykourgos, Charondas,Zaleukos and Solon. My argument proceeds in two parts: first a survey of Plato's generaldescription of the statesman and second a sketch of the historical prototype ofPlato's statesman.

Original language	English
Journal	Polis
Volume	28
Pages (from-to)	126-31
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0142-257X
Publication status	Published - 2011

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The Historic Model of Plato's Stateman in Politikos

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