Abstract
Serious problems are encountered in integrating the nocturnal council, described in Book XII of the Laws, into the institutional structure presented in Plato's earlier Books. These difficulties are addressed by Glenn Morrow in Plato's Cretan City, and most authorities have accepted Morrow's ‘informal view’. This article contends that an alternative account, the ‘institutional view’, accords more closely with the evidence.
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