{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg029.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg029.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg029.local001","title":"Οἰκονομικά","titleGreek":"Οἰκονομικά","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["George Cyril Armstrong"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Metaphysics; The Oeconomica and The Magna Moralia","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1935","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Digital Library Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/aristotlemetaphy0000aris_x4v7/page/326/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. Οἰκονομικά. ed. George Cyril Armstrong. The Metaphysics; The Oeconomica and The Magna Moralia, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1935. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg029.local001","excerpt":"ἡ οἰκονομικὴ καὶ πολιτικὴ διαφέρει οὐ μόνον τοσοῦτον ὅσον οἰκία καὶ πόλις ʽταῦτα μὲν γὰρ αὐταῖς ἐστι τὰ ὑποκείμενἀ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅτι ἡ μὲν πολιτικὴ ἐκ πολλῶν ἀρχόντων ἐστίν, ἡ οἰκονομικὴ δὲ μοναρχία. ἔνιαι μὲν οὖν τῶν τεχνῶν διῄρηνται, καὶ οὐ τῆς αὐτῆς ἐστι ποιῆσαι καὶ χρήσασθαι τῷ ποιηθέντι, ὥσπερ λύρᾳ καὶ αὐλοῖς· τῆς δὲ πολιτικῆς ἐστι καὶ πόλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆς συστήσασθαι καὶ ὑπαρχούσῃ χρήσασθαι καλῶς· ὥστε δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τῆς οἰκονομικῆς ἂν εἴη καὶ κτήσασθαι οἶκον καὶ χρήσασθαι αὐτῷ. πόλις μὲν οὖν οἰκιῶν πλῆθός ἐστι καὶ χώρας καὶ κτημάτων αὔταρκες πρὸς τὸ εὖ ζῆν. φανερὸν δέ· ὅταν γὰρ μὴ δυνατοὶ ὦσι τούτου τυγχάνειν, διαλύεται καὶ ἡ κοινωνία. ἔτι δὲ ἕνεκα τούτου συνέρχονται. οὗ δὲ ἕνεκα ἕκαστόν ἐστι καὶ γέγονε, καὶ ἡ οὐσία αὐτοῦ τυγχάνει αὕτη οὖσα. ὥστε δῆλον ὅτι πρότερον γενέσει ἡ οἰκονομικὴ πολιτικῆς ἐστι. καὶ γὰρ τὸ ἔργον. μόριον γὰρ οἰκία πόλεώς ἐστιν. σκεπτέον οὖν περὶ τῆς οἰκονομικῆς καὶ τί…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg029.local001/#tlg0086-tlg029-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg029.local001/#tlg0086-tlg029-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg029.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg029.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg029/local001.json.gz"}}