Platon et la cité grecque. Théorie et réalité dans la constitution des Lois. Catalogue son of Venus and a

son of Venus and a cousin of Priam

thanks to artistic representations of themes omnipresent in art history

immersed in their daily work

by Jacqueline de Romilly I

made of dreams and fantasy

Platon et la cité grecque. Théorie et réalité dans la constitution des Lois. Catalogue son of Venus and aWhy did Plato write the Laws? The work demonstrates an interest in concrete institutions and positive laws that his philosophical project did not a priori justify. The undertaking, immense, had never before been attempted on such a scale. According to Aristotle, Plato intended, in writing this work, to propose a type of constitution more suited to cities than that of the Republic. Comparing the institutions advocated in the Laws with their Greek