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Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 6, chapter 45
The Cretan Constitution Compared to the Spartan
Passing to the Cretan polity there are two points
The Spartan polity unlike that of Crete.
which deserve our consideration. The first
is how such writers as Ephorus, Xenophon,
Callisthenes and PlatoFor what remains of the account of Ephorus see Strabo, 10.4.8-9. The
reference to Plato is to the "Laws," especially Book I. See also Aristotle, Pol.
2, 10, who points out the likeness and unlikeness between the Cretan and
Lacedaemonian constitutions.—who are the most
learned of the ancients—could assert that it was like that
of Sparta; and secondly how they came to assert that it was
at all admirable. I can agree with neither assertion; and
I will explain why I say so. And first as to its dissimilarity
with the Spartan constitution. The peculiar merit of the latter
is said to be its land laws, by which no one possesses more than
another, but all citizens have an equal share in the public
land.This equality of land had gradually disappeared b
243 BC - 239 BC (search for this): book 6, chapter 45