Work
Laws
Νόμοι
By Plato.
- Kind of writing
- Philosophic Dialogue
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Length
- 118,263 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 79% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
The people who fed Sparta, and how Sparta kept them downThe helots and the krypteiaSparta's citizens could spend their lives training for war because someone else grew their food.Minos' city in legend, and the palace Arthur Evans dug up and rebuilt in concreteKnossos and the labyrinthHomer knew Knossos as "a great city" where Minos was king, and later Greeks told of the labyrinth that Daedalus built there for the Minotaur.