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The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians

c.375 BC

Two ancient treatises on the rival constitutions, in Dakyns' translation: the Polity of the Athenians, an analysis of democracy whose attribution to Xenophon scholars have long doubted, and the Polity of the Lacedaemonians on Sparta and the discipline of Lycurgus.