Aristotle · Pol.

Politics

Aristotle on the city, citizenship, constitutions, and the best life, in eight books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1957)) side by side with an English translation (Benjamin Jowett) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 8 books, 103 chapters.

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• Jowett Greek & English · Benjamin Jowett (Oxford, 1885)

Books

• Book I 13 chapters · 1252a1–1260b24
• Book II 12 chapters · 1260b27–1274b28
• Book III 18 chapters · 1274b32–1288b6
• Book IV 16 chapters · 1288b10–1301a15
• Book V 12 chapters · 1301a19–1316b27
• Book VI 8 chapters · 1316b31–1323a10
• Book VII 17 chapters · 1323a14–1337a7
• Book VIII 7 chapters · 1337a11–1342b34

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotelis politica. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.
Translation: Benjamin Jowett (Oxford, 1885).
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In print

Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, Politics (Hackett, 2017) Find in print →
• TranslationCarnes Lord, The Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed. 2013) Find in print →
• TranslationHippocrates G. Apostle & Lloyd P. Gerson, Aristotle’s Politics (The Peripatetic Press, 1986) Find in print →

Prefer a paper copy? These in-print editions carry the translation read here (or a revision of it):

• In printBenjamin Jowett’s translation, found in Richard McKeon, ed., The Basic Works of Aristotle (Random House, 1941; repr. Modern Library, 2001) Find in print →
• In printBenjamin Jowett’s translation, revised, found in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1984) Find in print →

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