Selective bibliography of recommended print readings

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Translation and Commentary

Aristotle, The Politics. Translated with an introduction by Carnes Lord. (Chicago, 1984). An admirable translation, remarkably close to the Greek but still very readable.

W. L. Newman, The Politics of Aristotle, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1887-1902). A massive critical commentary that has never been equaled. See especially his discussion of Aristotle and Greek democracy in vol. 4, pages xxxvi-lxi.

Interpretative Studies

Pierre Aubenque, "Aristote et la démocratie," in Individu et société. L'influence d'Aristote dans le monde méditerranéen. Actes du Colloque d'Istanbul Palais de France, 5-9 Janvier 1986. ed. Thierry Zarcone (Istanbul, 1988 = Varia Turcica X), pp. 31-38.

Jonathan Barnes, "Aristotle and Political Liberty," in Aristoteles' Politik. Akten des XI. Symposium Aristotelicum. Friedrichshafen/Bodensee 25.8-3.9.1987, ed. G. Patzig (Göttingen, 1990), pages 249-263, with comments by R. Sorabji, pages 264-76.

Mortimer Chambers, "Aristotle's 'Forms of Democracy,'" Transactions of the American Philological Association vol. 92 (1961), pages 20-36.

Abraham Edel, Aristotle and his Philosophy (Chapel Hill, 1982), pages 325-328.

Christoph Eucken, "Der aristotelische Demokratiebegriff und sein historisches Umfeld," in Aristoteles' Politik. Akten des XI. Symposium Aristotelicum. Friedrichshafen/Bodensee 25.8-3.9.1987, ed. G. Patzig (Göttingen, 1990), pages 277-291, with comments by T. H. Irwin, pages 292-95.

Robert A. Goldberg, Democracy and Justice in Aristotle's Politics, University of Toronto dissertation, 1990; summary in Dissertation Abstracts 51 (1990-91) 1369A.

Andrew Lintott, "Aristotle and Democracy," Classical Quarterly 42 (1992), pages 114-128.

Claude Mossé, "Égalité democratique et inégalité sociales. Le Débat à Athènes au IVème Siècle," Metis 2 (1987), pages 165-176, 195-206 (esp. pages 201-206 on the Politics).

R. G. Mulgan, Aristotle's Political Theory. An Introduction for Students of Political Theory (Oxford, 1977), pages 73-75, and "Aristotle's analysis of democracy and oligarchy," in A Companion to Aristotle's Politics, ed. David Keyt and Fred D, Miller, Jr. (Blackwell, Oxford, 1991), pages 307-322.

Oswyn Murray, "Polis and Politeia in Aristotle," in The Ancient Greek City State, edited Mogens Herman Hansen (Copenhagen, 1993), pages 197-210.

Martha Nussbaum, "Aristotelian Social Democracy," in Liberalism and the Good, edited R. Bruce Douglas (New York, 1990), pages 203-252.

Josiah Ober, "Aristotle's Political Sociology: Class, Status, and Order in the Politics," in Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science, edited Carnes Lord and David K. O'Connor (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991), pages 112-135.

Demetris Papadis, "Il concetto di democrazia in Aristotele," Discorsi 9 (1989), pages 326-340.

C. I. Papageorgiou, "Four or five types of democracy in Aristotle?," History of Political Thought vol. 11 (1990), pages 1-8.

David Ross, Aristotle, 5th edition (London, 1949), pages 250-263.

Arlene W. Saxenhouse, Fear of Diversity. The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought (Chicago, 1992), pages 189-232 ("Aristotle: Diversity and the Birth of Political Science").

Paul Schollmeier, "The democracy most in accordance with equality," History of Political Thought 9 (1988), pages 205-209.

Barry S. Strauss, "On Aristotle's Critique of Athenian Democracy," in Essays on the Foundations of Aristotelian Political Science, ed. Carnes Lord and David K. O'Connor (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1991), pages 212-233.

J. Touloumakos, Die theoretische Begründung der Demokratie in der klassischen Zeit Griechenlands (Die demokratische Argumentation in der "Politik" des Aristoteles) (Athens, 1985).

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Author: Thomas R. Martin, Holy Cross Classics Dept.
Contributors: Neel Smith, Holy Cross Classics Dept.; Jennifer F.Stuart, Holy Cross '95