A History of Greek Economic ThoughtTrever, Albert Augustus
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A History of Greek Economic Thought
Trever, Albert Augustus
Economics -- Greece -- History; Thesis (Ph. D.)
Cf. A. Dobbs, _Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece_
(1907), p. 48. For examples, cf. Hippias, cited below, n. 6, or
Lycophron, opposed by Aristotle, cited below in Aristotle’s criticism
of socialism (_Pol._ 1280_b_10-12).
Footnote 41:
_Rep._ i, and the story of Gyges, _Rep._ ii.
Footnote 42:
_Gorg._ 482E ff., though Callicles was hardly a Sophist.
Footnote 43:
E.g., Hippias in _Protag._ 337C, where he says that men are related
(συγγενεῖς, οἰκείους) by nature, not by law, and that the law is a
tyrant of men that does much violence contrary to nature (παρὰ τὴν
φύσιν).
Footnote 44:
Cf. Alcidamas frag., cited _infra_ on Aristotle’s theory of slavery,
and Ar. _Pol._ i. 3. 1253_b_20-23; Lycophron (pseudo-Plut. _Pro. Nob._
18. 2) denies the reality of the distinction between noble and
ill-born. Cf. also on Euripides, _infra_. On the development of the
opposition to slavery in Greece, cf. Newman, _Pol. of Arist._, I, 139
ff.
Footnote 45:
Diog. L. ix. 55: δίκη ὑπὲρ μισθοῦ. Cf. Diels, _op. cit._, II, 220,
231; Croiset, _Hist. de la Litt. Gr._, IV, 54. Souchon (_op. cit._, p.
23, n. 1) thinks that it may have taught the dignity of all labor. Cf.
also Plato (_Sophist_ 232 D): τὰ πρωταγόρεια ... περί τε πάλης καὶ τῶν
ἄλλων τεχνῶν. Gomperz (_Die Apologie der Heilkunst_, p. 33) infers
that Protagoras had published a _Gesammtapologie der Künste_. Cf.
_Pol._ 299C, and Diog. L. ix. 8. 55.
Footnote 46:
Cf. Plato _Protag._ 328B, where Protagoras states his rule as to
charges for his lectures. Cf. Zeller, _op. cit._, I, 2, 1080 ff., on
the earnings of the Sophists. Cf. Plato _Euthyd._ 304C: ὅτι οὐδὲ τοῦ
χρηματίζεσθαί φατον διακωλύειν οὐδέν.
Footnote 47:
Plato _Charm._ 163 B-D on Hesiod.
Footnote 48:
Xen. _Mem._ ii. 1. 21-34, the story of Heracles (28).
Footnote 49:
Pseudo-Platon. _Eryxias_ 397 D-E, discussed _infra_.
Footnote 50:
_Hippias Minor_ 368 D, where he is presented as the jack of all
trades. Cf. _infra_ for the antithetic attitude of Plato.
Footnote 51:
_Orestes_ 917-22; _Supplices_ 399-456, 238-45; _Phoenissae_ 535-51
(Dindorf), cited by Dümmler, _Proleg. zu Platons Staat_ (1891), to
show that there are traces of a political treatise of the school of
Antiphon in Euripides. Cf. Barker, _op. cit._, p. 25 and note.
Footnote 52:
_Orestes_ 917 ff.; cf. also the noble character of the peasant
(αὐτουργός) in the _Electra_, who is a noble soul (252 f.), and who
speaks the prologue, though he is only a secondary person in the play.
Cf. also 367-82.
Footnote 53:
Fr. 345 (Nauck), the unjust man is ignoble (δυσγενής), though better
born than Zeus; frs. 54 (Alex.), 514 (Melanippe), 8 (Electra); cf. n.
1 above, and _infra_. He puts worthy sentiments into the mouths of
slaves and dresses his nobles in rags.
Footnote 54:
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