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The MouseionAristotlePolitics

PoliticsΠολιτικά

Read it with the English beside the Greek More by Aristotle

Kind of writing: Philosophy
Dialect: Attic
Written: 4th c. BC
Length: 74,647 words analysed
Vocabulary: 81% 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.

Greek textAristotle. Aristotelis Politica. Ross, William David, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957 (printing).
English translationAristotle. Politics. Rackham, Harris, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1944 (printing).

In The Painted Stoa

Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.

How Athens trusted chance, and built a machine to make sure nobody cheated itChosen by lot: the allotment machineModern democracies choose their officials by election.Wedding torches, a poet's fever, lovers' customs and the law on adulteryLove, sex and marriageA Greek marriage was a deal between two households, made so that a man would have legitimate children to inherit his house.House, family, slaves and storerooms: the oikos, and the town where it survivesThe householdA Greek oikos was more than a house.Bought, captured, born or kidnapped: the people Greek freedom rested onSlaveryGreek cities had slaves, and classical Athens, the city that invented democracy, had a great many.Unnamed in court, vital at the altar: what Greek women could and could not doWomen's livesAlmost everything we read about Greek women was written by men.