1. For full references to the work of Jaeger and von Arnim, see the Select Bibliographies.

2. See C. J. Rowe’s sensible judgement: ‘We may need the genetic method to explain the peculiarities of the form of the Politics; but in the end it will not, I think, seriously affect our interpretation of its contents’ (‘Aims and methods in Aristotle’s Politics’, Classical Quarterly, 27 (1977), pp. 159–172 (171)).