Editorial

This volume contains a collection of articles on the reception of classical thought.  The contents of the articles are outlined in an introduction by Kyriakos Demetriou, who is responsible for commissioning and editing the articles.  In addition there are the usual review articles and book reviews, for which Peter Nicholson is responsible.

Volume 20 will return to our standard mix of articles, review articles and book reviews.  Among the articles will be Paul Schollmeier’s ‘Aristotle and Women: Household and Political Roles’.

This is the last volume under Peter Nicholson’s editorship.  Having retired from the University of York in September 2001, after a total of thirty eight years’ teaching, he is now retiring as Editor.  He became editor of Polis with Volume 6 in 1986. Since then, the journal has grown considerably, becoming larger, regular, and professionally produced. 

With Volume 20, Kyriakos Demetriou becomes the Editor.

THE EDITORS

  Articles

       Introduction to the Papers

The Platonic Academy and Democracy, John R.Wallach

How Joseph de Maistre Read Plato’s Laws, M. S. Kochin

Plato as Public Intellectual: E.R.Dodds’ Edition of the Gorgias and Its ‘Primary Purpose’, Robert Todd

 A ‘Legend’ in Crisis: The Debate over Plato’s Politics, 1930-1960, K.N. Demetriou

 Utility and Justice: Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition, F. Rosen

‘Second-Hand Superiority’:Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the English, Ward W. Briggs

Wilamowitz’s Correspondence with his British Colleagues, William M. Calder III  

Review Articles

Review Article – Philosophy, History, and Democracy, John R.Wallach, The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy, Josiah Ober

Review Article – Was Plato a Platonist?, Julia Annas, Platonic Ethics Old and New,  Dirk t. D.Held

Review Article - Revolution and Reform in Aristotle’s Politics Books V-VI, Fred D.Miller, Jr.

Book Reviews

 Paul Cartledge, Spartan Reflections.  Reviewed by P.J. Rhodes

Christopher Bruell, On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues; Sean Sayers,

Plato’s Republic: An Introduction.  Reviewed by Russell Bentley

Devin Stauffer, Plato’s Introduction to the Question of Justice. Reviewed by Robert Arp

Angela Hobbs, Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good.  Reviewed by Susan Mendus

C.Rowe and M.Schofield, in association with S.Harrison and M.Lane, eds, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought.  Reviewed by Fred Rosen

North American Chapter