By the Dog
M.F. Burnyeat: How Plato Works, 7 August 2003
The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
by Ruby Blondell.
Cambridge, 452 pp., £55, June 2002,0 521 79300 9 Show More
by Ruby Blondell.
Cambridge, 452 pp., £55, June 2002,
“... as ‘the Old Oligarch’, is the author of a Constitution of the Athenians wrongly attributed to Xenophon. He goes on about how cleverly the Athenian people have set things up to exploit the rich, and dreams of managing the same thing in reverse when his side gains power. Evidently, Greeks were less squeamish than we are about the relation between ... ”