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The Game of Polis and Plato's Rep. 422 E

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

William Ridgeway
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Extract

This well known passage has given rise to some discussion in recent years, the words being the centre of the fray.

The Scholiast says

Most modern commentators have followed the Scholiast. But Mr. J. A. Stewart in the Classical Beview (Vol. vii. 3–59) follows the President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in stating that the Scholiast was led astray by the proverb and that there is really no reference at all to the game ot Polis, and compares with it the passage from the Meno, 77 A.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 16 , November 1896 , pp. 288 - 290
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1896

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1 Dr. Sandys is probably right in thinking that Aristotle (Pol. I. 2, 10) when he compares to the is alluding to the game of