Further Reading

The modern literature on the Laws is vast, but the most up-to-date and extensive bibliography is T. J. Saunders and Luc Brisson, Bibliography on Plato’s Laws (Academia Verlag, 2000).

Some important general works are:

Christopher Bobonich, Utopia Recast: Plato’s Later Political Philosophy (Oxford, 2002)

E. B. England, The Laws of Plato (Manchester, 1921; reprinted New York, 1976)

Andre Laks, ‘The Laws’, in Christopher Rowe and Malcolm Schofield (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge, 2000)

Glenn R. Morrow, Plato’s Cretan City (Princeton, 1960)

Thanassis Samaras, Plato on Democracy (New York, 2002), Part III

T. J. Saunders, Plato’s Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy and Reform in Greek Penology (Oxford, 1991)

R. F. Stalley, An Introduction to Plato’s Laws (Oxford, 1983)

T. M. L. SAUNDERS

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November 2003