| 1. Pindar, Fragments, 169 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on primacy of law •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice •law (nomos), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 463 |
| 2. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 9.60 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 482 |
| 3. Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 40-41, 21 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 4. Democritus, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •archytas, attribution of on law and justice to •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), authorship •political thought, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 456 |
5. Herodotus, Histories, 1.32.8, 3.38, 6.127.3, 8.124.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on primacy of law •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice •law (nomos), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice •aristoxenus xxv, and on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 463, 473, 477, 480 | 1.32.8. It is impossible for one who is only human to obtain all these things at the same time, just as no land is self-sufficient in what it produces. Each country has one thing but lacks another; whichever has the most is the best. Just so no human being is self-sufficient; each person has one thing but lacks another. 3.38. I hold it then in every way proved that Cambyses was quite insane; or he would never have set himself to deride religion and custom. For if it were proposed to all nations to choose which seemed best of all customs, each, after examination, would place its own first; so well is each convinced that its own are by far the best. ,It is not therefore to be supposed that anyone, except a madman, would turn such things to ridicule. I will give this one proof among many from which it may be inferred that all men hold this belief about their customs. ,When Darius was king, he summoned the Greeks who were with him and asked them for what price they would eat their fathers' dead bodies. They answered that there was no price for which they would do it. ,Then Darius summoned those Indians who are called Callatiae, who eat their parents, and asked them (the Greeks being present and understanding through interpreters what was said) what would make them willing to burn their fathers at death. The Indians cried aloud, that he should not speak of so horrid an act. So firmly rooted are these beliefs; and it is, I think, rightly said in Pindar's poem that custom is lord of all. 6.127.3. From the Peloponnese came Leocedes, son of Phidon the tyrant of Argos, that Phidon who made weights and measures for the Peloponnesians and acted more arrogantly than any other Greek; he drove out the Elean contest-directors and held the contests at Olympia himself. This man's son now came, and Amiantus, an Arcadian from Trapezus, son of Lycurgus; and an Azenian from the town of Paeus, Laphanes, son of that Euphorion who, as the Arcadian tale relates, gave lodging to the Dioscuri, and ever since kept open house for all men; and Onomastus from Elis, son of Agaeus. 8.124.3. and with many words of praise, they sent him home with the three hundred picked men of Sparta who are called Knights to escort him as far as the borders of Tegea. Themistocles was the only man of whom we know to whom the Spartans gave this escort. |
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| 6. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 463 |
| 7. Plato, Statesman, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 468 |
| 8. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 9. Plato, Gorgias, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 10. Aristophanes, Peace, 344 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •aristoxenus xxv, and on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 480 |
| 11. Plato, Cratylus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 483 |
| 12. Xenophon, Constitution of The Spartans, 4.3-4.5, 8.3-8.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 473 |
13. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.3.5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •aristoxenus xxv, and on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 480| 1.3.5. διαίτῃ δὲ τήν τε ψυχὴν ἐπαίδευσε καὶ τὸ σῶμα ᾗ χρώμενος ἄν τις, εἰ μή τι δαιμόνιον εἴη, θαρραλέως καὶ ἀσφαλῶς διάγοι καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἀπορήσειε τοσαύτης δαπάνης. οὕτω γὰρ εὐτελὴς ἦν, ὥστʼ οὐκ οἶδʼ εἴ τις οὕτως ἂν ὀλίγα ἐργάζοιτο ὥστε μὴ λαμβάνειν τὰ Σωκράτει ἀρκοῦντα. σίτῳ μὲν γὰρ τοσούτῳ ἐχρῆτο, ὅσον ἡδέως ἤσθιε, καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτο οὕτω παρεσκευασμένος ᾔει ὥστε τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τοῦ σίτου ὄψον αὐτῷ εἶναι· ποτὸν δὲ πᾶν ἡδὺ ἦν αὐτῷ διὰ τὸ μὴ πίνειν, εἰ μὴ διψῴη. | 1.3.5. He schooled his body and soul by following, a system which, in all human calculation, would give him a life of confidence and security, and would make it easy to meet his expenses. For he was so frugal that it is hardly possible to imagine a man doing so little work as not to earn enough to satisfy the needs of Socrates . He ate just sufficient food to make eating a pleasure, and he was so ready for his food that he found appetite the best sauce Cyropaedia I. v. 12. : and any kind of drink he found pleasant, because he drank only when he was thirsty. |
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14. Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus, 8.1.22, 8.2.14 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on primacy of law •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice •law (nomos), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 463, 485| 8.1.22. αἰσθάνεσθαι μὲν γὰρ ἐδόκει καὶ διὰ τοὺς γραφομένους νόμους βελτίους γιγνομένους ἀνθρώπους· τὸν δὲ ἀγαθὸν ἄρχοντα βλέποντα νόμον ἀνθρώποις ἐνόμισεν, ὅτι καὶ τάττειν ἱκανός ἐστι καὶ ὁρᾶν τὸν ἀτακτοῦντα καὶ κολάζειν. 8.2.14. καὶ λόγος δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀπομνημονεύεται ὡς λέγοι παραπλήσια ἔργα εἶναι νομέως ἀγαθοῦ καὶ βασιλέως ἀγαθοῦ· τόν τε γὰρ νομέα χρῆναι ἔφη εὐδαίμονα τὰ κτήνη ποιοῦντα χρῆσθαι αὐτοῖς, ἣ δὴ προβάτων εὐδαιμονία, τόν τε βασιλέα ὡσαύτως εὐδαίμονας πόλεις καὶ ἀνθρώπους ποιοῦντα χρῆσθαι αὐτοῖς. οὐδὲν οὖν θαυμαστόν, εἴπερ ταύτην εἶχε τὴν γνώμην, τὸ φιλονίκως ἔχειν πάντων ἀνθρώπων θεραπείᾳ περιγίγνεσθαι. | 8.1.22. 8.2.14. |
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15. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 5.72.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 473, 477| 5.72.4. καὶ ταύτῃ μὲν ἡσσῶντο οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι: τῷ δὲ ἄλλῳ στρατοπέδῳ καὶ μάλιστα τῷ μέσῳ, ᾗπερ ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἆγις ἦν καὶ περὶ αὐτὸν οἱ τριακόσιοι ἱππῆς καλούμενοι, προσπεσόντες τῶν [τε] Ἀργείων τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις καὶ πέντε λόχοις ὠνομασμένοις καὶ Κλεωναίοις καὶ Ὀρνεάταις καὶ Ἀθηναίων τοῖς παρατεταγμένοις, ἔτρεψαν οὐδὲ ἐς χεῖρας τοὺς πολλοὺς ὑπομείναντας, ἀλλ’ ὡς ἐπῇσαν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι εὐθὺς ἐνδόντας καὶ ἔστιν οὓς καὶ καταπατηθέντας τοῦ μὴ φθῆναι τὴν ἐγκατάληψιν. | 5.72.4. But the Lacedaemonians, worsted in this part of the field, with the rest of their army, and especially the center, where the three hundred knights, as they are called, fought round King Agis, fell on the older men of the Argives and the five companies so named, and on the Cleonaeans, the Orneans, and the Athenians next them, and instantly routed them; the greater number not even waiting to strike a blow, but giving way the moment that they came on, some even being trodden under foot, in their fear of being overtaken by their assailants. |
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| 16. Aristoxenus, Fragments, 17, 34-35, 43, 50 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 480 |
| 17. Aristotle, Rhetoric, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 462 |
| 18. Aristoxenus, Elements of Harmony, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 477 |
| 19. Aristotle, Meteorology, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 482 |
| 20. Aristotle, History of Animals, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 485 |
| 21. Timaeus of Tauromenium, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 480 |
| 22. Aristotle, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 485 |
| 23. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 476, 486 |
| 24. Aristotle, Politics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 25. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 26. Aristotle, Respiration, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 485 |
| 27. Aristotle, Movement of Animals, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 478 |
| 28. Aristotle, Generation And Corruption, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 482 |
| 29. Cicero, On Laws, 1.18-1.48, 2.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •law (nomos), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •justice (dikē), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 464, 465, 483 |
| 30. Cicero, On Old Age, 12.39-12.40 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •law (nomos), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 481 |
31. Polybius, Histories, 6.3.7-6.3.8, 6.10.6-6.10.11 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 472| 6.3.7. κατʼ ἀμφότερα γὰρ ἀγνοεῖν μοι δοκοῦσι. δῆλον γὰρ ὡς ἀρίστην μὲν ἡγητέον πολιτείαν τὴν ἐκ πάντων τῶν προειρημένων ἰδιωμάτων συνεστῶσαν· 6.3.8. τούτου γὰρ τοῦ μέρους οὐ λόγῳ μόνον, ἀλλʼ ἔργῳ πεῖραν εἰλήφαμεν, Λυκούργου συστήσαντος πρώτου κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον τὸ Λακεδαιμονίων πολίτευμα. 6.10.6. ἃ προϊδόμενος Λυκοῦργος οὐχ ἁπλῆν οὐδὲ μονοειδῆ συνεστήσατο τὴν πολιτείαν, ἀλλὰ πάσας ὁμοῦ συνήθροιζε τὰς ἀρετὰς καὶ τὰς ἰδιότητας τῶν ἀρίστων πολιτευμάτων, 6.10.7. ἵνα μηδὲν αὐξανόμενον ὑπὲρ τὸ δέον εἰς τὰς συμφυεῖς ἐκτρέπηται κακίας, ἀντισπωμένης δὲ τῆς ἑκάστου δυνάμεως ὑπʼ ἀλλήλων μηδαμοῦ νεύῃ μηδʼ ἐπὶ πολὺ καταρρέπῃ μηδὲν αὐτῶν, ἀλλʼ ἰσορροποῦν καὶ ζυγοστατούμενον ἐπὶ πολὺ διαμένῃ κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀντιπλοίας λόγον ἀεὶ τὸ πολίτευμα, 6.10.8. τῆς μὲν βασιλείας κωλυομένης ὑπερηφανεῖν διὰ τὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ δήμου φόβον, δεδομένης καὶ τούτῳ μερίδος ἱκανῆς ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ, 6.10.9. τοῦ δὲ δήμου πάλιν μὴ θαρροῦντος καταφρονεῖν τῶν βασιλέων διὰ τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν γερόντων φόβον, οἳ κατʼ ἐκλογὴν ἀριστίνδην κεκριμένοι πάντες ἔμελλον ἀεὶ τῷ δικαίῳ προσνέμειν ἑαυτούς, 6.10.10. ὥστε τὴν τῶν ἐλαττουμένων μερίδα διὰ τὸ τοῖς ἔθεσιν ἐμμένειν, ταύτην ἀεὶ γίνεσθαι μείζω καὶ βαρυτέραν τῇ τῶν γερόντων προσκλίσει καὶ ῥοπῇ. 6.10.11. τοιγαροῦν οὕτως συστησάμενος πλεῖστον ὧν ἡμεῖς ἴσμεν χρόνον διεφύλαξε τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις τὴν ἐλευθερίαν. | 6.3.7. for in either case my opinion is that they are wrong. For it is evident that we must regard as the best constitution a combination of all these three varieties, since we have had proof of this not only theoretically but by actual experience, Lycurgus having been the first to draw up a constitution â that of Sparta â on this principle. 6.10.6. Lycurgus, then, foreseeing this, did not make his constitution simple and uniform, but united in it all the good and distinctive features of the best governments, so that none of the principles should grow unduly and be perverted into its allied evil, but that, the force of each being neutralized by that of the others, neither of them should prevail and outbalance another, but that the constitution should remain for long in a state of equilibrium like a well-trimmed boat, kingship being guarded from arrogance by the fear of the commons, who were given a sufficient share in the government, and the commons on the other hand not venturing to treat the kings with contempt from fear of the elders, who being selected from the best citizens would be sure all of them to be always on the side of justice; 6.10.10. so that that part of the state which was weakest owing to its subservience to traditional custom, acquired power and weight by the support and influence of the elders. 6.10.11. The consequence was that by drawing up his constitution thus he preserved liberty at Sparta for a longer period than is recorded elsewhere. |
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| 32. Nicocles, Fragments, 14 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •democracy, on law and justice •justice (dikē), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 33. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 9.3.1-9.3.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 482 |
| 34. Plutarch, Table Talk, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
35. Plutarch, Lycurgus, 5.7-5.8, 13.1, 29.6, 31.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on legal hierarchy •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution •law (nomos), in on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on corrective justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on written laws Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 472, 473, 474, 475| 5.7. οἷον ἕρμα τὴν τῶν γερόντων ἀρχὴν ἐν μέσῳ θεμένη καὶ ἰσορροπήσασα τὴν ἀσφαλεστάτην τάξιν ἔσχε καὶ κατάστασιν, ἀεὶ τῶν ὀκτὼ καὶ εἴκοσι γερόντων τοῖς μὲν βασιλεῦσι προστιθεμένων ὅσον ἀντιβῆναι πρὸς δημοκρατίαν, αὖθις δὲ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ γενέσθαι τυραννίδα τὸν δῆμον ἀναρρωννύντων. τοσούτους δέ φησι κατασταθῆναι τοὺς γέροντας Ἀριστοτέλης, ὅτι τριάκοντα τῶν πρώτων μετὰ Λυκούργου γενομένων δύο τὴν πρᾶξιν ἐγκατέλιπον ἀποδειλιάσαντες. 5.8. ὁ δὲ Σφαῖρος ἐξ ἀρχῆς φησι τοσούτους γενέσθαι τοὺς τῆς γνώμης μετασχόντας. εἴη δ’ ἂν τι καὶ τὸ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ διʼ ἑβδομάδος τετράδι πολλαπλασιασθείσης ἀποτελούμενον, καὶ ὅτι τοῖς αὑτοῦ μέρεσιν ἴσος ὢν μετὰ τὴν ἑξάδα τέλειός ἐστιν. ἐμοὶ δὲ δοκεῖ μάλιστα τοσούτους ἀποδεῖξαι τοὺς γέροντας ὅπως οἱ πάντες εἶεν τριάκοντα, τοῖς ὀκτὼ καὶ εἴκοσι τοῖν δυοῖν βασιλέοιν προστιθεμένοιν. 13.1. νόμους δὲ γεγραμμένους ὁ Λυκοῦργος οὐκ ἔθηκεν, ἀλλὰ μία τῶν καλουμένων ῥητρῶν ἔστιν αὕτη. τὰ μὲν γάρ κυριώτατα καὶ μέγιστα πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν πόλεως καὶ ἀρετήν, ἐν τοῖς ἤθεσιν ᾤετο καὶ ταῖς ἀγωγαῖς τῶν πολιτῶν ἐγκατεστοιχειωμένα, μένειν ἀκίνητα καὶ βέβαια, ἔχοντα τὴν προαίρεσιν δεσμὸν ἰσχυρότερον τῆς ἀνάγκης, ἣν ἡ παίδευσις ἐμποιεῖ τοῖς νέοις, νομοθέτου διάθεσιν ἀπεργαζομένη περὶ ἕκαστον αὐτῶν. 29.6. καὶ οὐ διεψεύσθη τῶν λογισμῶν τοσοῦτον ἐπρώτευσεν ἡ πόλις τῆς Ἑλλάδος εὐνομίᾳ, καὶ δόξῃ, χρόνον ἐτῶν πεντακοσίων τοῖς Λυκούργου χρησαμένη νόμοις, οὓς δεκατεσσάρων βασιλέων μετʼ ἐκεῖνον εἰς Ἆγιν τὸν Ἀρχιδάμου γενομένων οὐδεὶς ἐκίνησεν. ἡ γάρ τῶν ἐφόρων κατάστασις οὐκ ἄνεσις ἦν, ἀλλʼ ἐπίτασις τῆς πολιτείας, καὶ δοκοῦσα πρὸς τοῦ δήμου γεγονέναι σφοδροτέραν ἐποίησε τὴν ἀριστοκρατίαν. 31.2. ταύτην καὶ Πλάτων ἔλαβε τῆς πολιτείας ὑπόθεσιν καὶ Διογένης καὶ Ζήνων καὶ πάντες ὅσοι τι περὶ τούτων ἐπιχειρήσαντες εἰπεῖν ἐπαινοῦνται, γράμματα καὶ λόγους ἀπολιπόντες μόνον, ὁ δὲ οὐ γράμματα καὶ λόγους, ἀλλʼ ἔργῳ πολιτείαν ἀμίμητον εἰς φῶς προενεγκάμενος, καὶ τοῖς ἀνύπαρκτον εἶναι τὴν λεγομένην περὶ τὸν σοφὸν διάθεσιν ὑπολαμβάνουσιν ἐπιδείξας ὅλην τὴν πόλιν φιλοσοφοῦσαν, εἰκότως ὑπερῆρε τῇ δόξῃ τοὺς πώποτε πολιτευσαμένους ἐν τοῖς Ἕλλησι. | 5.7. but now, by making the power of the senate a sort of ballast for the ship of state and putting her on a steady keel, it achieved the safest and the most orderly arrangement, since the twenty-eight senators always took the side of the kings when it was a question of curbing democracy, and, on the other hand, always strengthened the people to withstand the encroachments of tyranny. The number of the senators was fixed at twenty-eight because, according to Aristotle, two of the thirty original associates of Lycurgus abandoned the enterprise from lack of courage. 5.8. But Sphaerus says that this was originally the number of those who shared the confidence of Lycurgus Possibly there is some virtue in this number being made up of seven multiplied by four, apart from the fact that, being equal to the sum of its own factors, it is the next perfect number after six. But in my own opinion, Lycurgus made the senators of just that number in order that the total might be thirty when the two kings were added to the eight and twenty. 13.1. None of his laws were put into writing by Lycurgus, indeed, one of the so-called rhetras forbids it. For he thought that if the most important and binding principles which conduce to the prosperity and virtue of a city were implanted in the habits and training of its citizens, they would remain unchanged and secure, having a stronger bond than compulsion in the fixed purposes imparted to the young by education, which performs the office of a law-giver for every one of them. 29.6. And he was not deceived in his expectations, so long did his city have the first rank in Hellas for good government and reputation, observing as she did for five hundred years the laws of Lycurgus, in which no one of the fourteen kings who followed him made any change, down to Agis the son of Archidamus. For the institution of the ephors did not weaken, but rather strengthened the civil polity, and though it was thought to have been done in the interests of the people, it really made the aristocracy more powerful. 31.2. His design for a civil polity was adopted by Plato, Diogenes, Zeno, and by all those who have won approval for their treatises on this subject, although they left behind them only writings and words. Lycurgus, on the other hand, produced not writings and words, but an actual polity which was beyond imitation, and because he gave, to those who maintain that the much talked of natural disposition to wisdom exists only in theory, an example of an entire city given to the love of wisdom, his fame rightly transcended that of all who ever founded polities among the Greeks. |
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| 36. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •aristoxenus xxv, and on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), authorship Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 459 |
37. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 5.25, 7.128, 7.131, 7.147 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •archytas, attribution of on law and justice to •aristoxenus xxv, and on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), authorship •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •law (nomos), in on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 458, 464, 473, 483 | 5.25. A Collection or Compendium, two books.On Nature, three books.Concerning Nature, one book.On the Philosophy of Archytas, three books.On the Philosophy of Speusippus and Xenocrates, one book.Extracts from the Timaeus and from the Works of Archytas, one book.A Reply to the Writings of Melissus, one book.A Reply to the Writings of Alcmaeon, one book.A Reply to the Pythagoreans, one book.A Reply to the Writings of Gorgias, one book.A Reply to the Writings of Xenophanes, one book.A Reply to the Writings of Zeno, one book.On the Pythagoreans, one book.On Animals, nine books.Eight books of Dissections.A selection of Dissections, one book.On Composite Animals, one book.On the Animals of Fable, one book.On Sterility, one book.On Plants, two books.Concerning Physiognomy, one book.Two books concerning Medicine.On the Unit, one book. 7.128. For if magimity by itself alone can raise us far above everything, and if magimity is but a part of virtue, then too virtue as a whole will be sufficient in itself for well-being – despising all things that seem troublesome. Panaetius, however, and Posidonius deny that virtue is self-sufficing: on the contrary, health is necessary, and some means of living and strength.Another tenet of theirs is the perpetual exercise of virtue, as held by Cleanthes and his followers. For virtue can never be lost, and the good man is always exercising his mind, which is perfect. Again, they say that justice, as well as law and right reason, exists by nature and not by convention: so Chrysippus in his work On the Morally Beautiful. 7.131. It is also their doctrine that amongst the wise there should be a community of wives with free choice of partners, as Zeno says in his Republic and Chrysippus in his treatise On Government [and not only they, but also Diogenes the Cynic and Plato]. Under such circumstances we shall feel paternal affection for all the children alike, and there will be an end of the jealousies arising from adultery. The best form of government they hold to be a mixture of democracy, kingship, and aristocracy (or the rule of the best).Such, then, are the statements they make in their ethical doctrines, with much more besides, together with their proper proofs: let this, however, suffice for a statement of them in a summary and elementary form. 7.147. The deity, say they, is a living being, immortal, rational, perfect or intelligent in happiness, admitting nothing evil, taking providential care of the world and all that therein is, but he is not of human shape. He is, however, the artificer of the universe and, as it were, the father of all, both in general and in that particular part of him which is all-pervading, and which is called many names according to its various powers. They give the name Dia (Δία) because all things are due to (διά) him; Zeus (Ζῆνα) in so far as he is the cause of life (ζῆν) or pervades all life; the name Athena is given, because the ruling part of the divinity extends to the aether; the name Hera marks its extension to the air; he is called Hephaestus since it spreads to the creative fire; Poseidon, since it stretches to the sea; Demeter, since it reaches to the earth. Similarly men have given the deity his other titles, fastening, as best they can, on some one or other of his peculiar attributes. |
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| 38. Iamblichus, Protrepticus, None (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 463 |
| 39. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 267 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on corrective justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on legal hierarchy •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on written laws •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 475 |
| 40. Stobaeus, Anthology, 4.1.132, 4.1.135-4.1.138, 4.5.61 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •archytas, attribution of on law and justice to •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), authorship •political thought, in on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on primacy of law •law (nomos), in on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •justice (dikē), in on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on corrective justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on legal hierarchy •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 456, 461, 464, 466, 471, 474, 476, 477, 481, 484 |
| 41. Dichaearchus, Apud Plu. Qu. Conv., None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •democracy, on law and justice •justice (dikē), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 42. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 2.1021, 3.38, 3.314, 3.700 Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •law (nomos), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice •aretē/-a (virtue, excellence), in on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on primacy of law •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 462, 464, 473, 483 |
| 43. Aristotle, Protrepticus, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 465 |
| 47. Archytas, [On Law And Justice], 1, 33.3, 33.4, 33.5, 33.6, 33.7, 33.8, 33.9, 33.10, 33.11, 33.12, 33.13, 33.14, 33.15, 33.16, 33.17, 33.18, 33.20, 33.21, 33.22, 33.23, 33.24, 33.25, 33.26, 33.27, 33.28, 33.30, 33.31-34.3, 33.31, 34.3, 34.3-4.14, 34.4, 34.10, 34.11, 34.12, 34.13, 34.14, 34.15, 34.16, 34.17, 34.18, 34.19, 34.20, 34.21, 34.22, 34.25, 34.26, 34.27, 34.30, 34.31, 34.32, 35.3, 35.4, 35.5, 35.6, 35.7, 35.8, 35.9, 35.10, 35.11, 35.12, 35.13, 35.14, 35.15, 35.16, 35.17, 35.18, 35.19, 35.20, 35.21, 35.27, 35.28, 36.2, 36.3, 36.4, 36.5, 36.6, 36.7, 36.8, 36.9, 36.10, 36.11 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 456, 461, 462, 463, 464 |
| 48. Archytas, [On Wisdom], 1 Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on primacy of law •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 462 |
| 49. Pseudo-Hippodamus, Fr., None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 458 |
| 50. Pseudo-Diotogenes, On The Happiness of The Household, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 485 |
| 51. Pseudo-Ecphantus, On Kingship, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 480 |
| 52. Boethius, Introduction To Arithmetic, 2.45 Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •democracy, on law and justice •justice (dikē), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 53. Timaeus of Tauromenium, Frr., None Tagged with subjects: •aristoxenus xxv, and on law and justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on rulers •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom •freedom (ἐλευθερία), in on law and justice •rulers, in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 480 |
| 54. Pseudo-Zaleucus, Preludes To The Laws, None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on corrective justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on legal hierarchy •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on written laws •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 475 |
| 55. Philip of Opus, Epinomis, None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on corrective justice •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on legal hierarchy •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on written laws •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 475 |
| 57. Sthenidas, On Kinship, None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 467 |
| 58. Plato, [Minos], None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 483 |
| 59. Pseudo-Damippus, On The Happiness of The Household, None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on self-sufficiency and freedom Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 477 |
| 60. Pseudo-Hippodamus, On The Constitution, None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on the best constitution Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 473 |
| 62. Pseudo-Metopus, Fr., None Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •democracy, on law and justice •justice (dikē), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 63. Pseudo-Callicratidas, On The Happiness of The Household, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 469 |
| 64. Marcianus, Institutiones, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 462 |
| 65. Anonymus Iamblichi, Fr., 8 Tagged with subjects: •on law and justice (attrib. archytas) •on law and justice (attrib. archytas), on compliance of law with nature and proportion •law (nomos), in on law and justice Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 467 |
