In his last dialogue, an Athenian stranger designs the laws and institutions of a second-best city.
Books that mention Laws (5)
The Just City by Jo Walton: “It’s in the Laws too.” I’d only recently read the Laws.”
Politics by Aristotle: “As to his book of Laws, laws are the principal thing which that contains, for he has there said but little concerning government”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “I have also raced through the Phaedrus and started The Laws.”
The Essays by Michel de Montaigne: “'Tis marvellous to see how solicitous Plato is in his Laws concerning the gaiety and diversion of the youth of his city, and how much and often he enlarges upon the races, sports, songs, leaps, and dances…”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “and which Plato 9. de legibus approves, if old age, poverty, ignominy, &c. oppress,”