Research on this topic was facilitated by a summer grant from the Social Science Research Council. Documentation, here kept to a minimum, is supplied with more customary classics fullness in two articles of mine on adjacent subjects: "On the Imputed Possibilities of Callipolis and Magnesia" (American Journal of Philology, 85, 1964, 394-411) and "Participant Observers in Platonic Cities" (Midwest Journal of Political Science, 8, 1964, 353-71).
2.
Cf. my "The Place of Law in Projected Platonic Cities" (Symbolae Osloetases, 36, 1960, 72-85). The Politicus employs functionally similar mechanisms, though that would take too long to demonstrate here.
3.
Laws 829d. All translations are mine.
4.
Critics exhibit near unanimity in agreeing with the Athenian's judgment; but there is really a dearth of relevant data on which to base any conclusion.
Such a philological approach was adopted in "On the Imputed Possibilities ...," loc. cit.
9.
Rep. 424d.
10.
The Politicits discusses pattern maintenance far less prominently. Instead, it is largely concerned with those pattern disruptions that attend a transformation from one kind of political system to another.
11.
Laws 798e, 740b, 717de.
12.
Laws 758cd.
13.
Politicus 306a, ff.; 310a, ff.
14.
Rep. 429d-430a, 462a-d, 432ab, 465b. Linguistic conventions in Callipolis reflect this felt unity: see 463ab.
15.
15. Laws 816cd.
16.
Laws 708c; cf. 728e-729a, 743c, 773a.
17.
Laws 715b, 744d, 832cd, 862c, 917a.
18.
It is possible, of course, though scarcely provable, that Socrates has assessed the situation wrongly.
19.
Rep. 459d, ff.; 545d, ff.
20.
Politicus 308e-309a,
21.
Laws 773cd; 785a; 780a, ff.; 788a, ff.
22.
A similar penalty is imposed on a convicted parent beater. Laws 784cd, 937c, 881de, 952c.
