BOOK II

i Introduction to Ideal States: How Far Should Sharing Go?

ii Extreme Unity in Plato’s Republic

iii Extreme Unity is Impracticable

iv Further Objections to Community of Wives and Children

v The Ownership of Property

vi Criticisms of Plato’s Laws

vii The Constitution of Phaleas

viii The Constitution of Hippodamus

ix Criticism of the Spartan Constitution

The Helots

Spartan Women

Property

The Ephors

The Board of Elders

The Kings

The Common Meals

Some Further Criticisms

x Criticism of the Cretan Constitution

xi Criticism of the Carthaginian Constitution

xii Solon and Some Other Lawgivers