1. Some of these large issues are discussed by E. M. Wood and N. Wood, Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Social Context (Oxford, 1978), pp. 5–12. See also J. H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (London, 1969), and R. Robinson, Aristotle’s Politics, Books III and IV (Oxford, 1962), pp. xii–xv.