Clarendon Aristotle: Politics Essay, Research Paper

The Clarendon Aristotle Series of translations and commentaries of the

Politics is now complete. This detailed and learned edition fills the only

remaining gap left by those of Saunders (Books I and II), Robinson (III and

IV) and Kraut (VII and VIII; reviewed. in BMCR 99.6.17).

The organization of the Politics belies the economy of this four-part

division. Books V and VI belong thematically with book IV as a discussion

of less than ideal constitutions and the causes of revolutions that

threaten them. But the harshness of the division is mitigated by this

commentary’s concentration on individual passages and prefer “authoritative”)

and “constitution” for POLITEI/A (Kraut uses “political system”).