{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg035.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg035.local001","title":"Πολιτικά","titleGreek":"Πολιτικά","alternateTitles":["Politics","Politique","Πολιτικά"],"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":["William David Ross"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Politica","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1957","volume":null,"series":"Oxford Classical Texts","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":"http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id415843081","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. Πολιτικά. ed. William David Ross. Aristotelis Politica, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg035.local001","excerpt":"ἐπειδὴ πᾶσαν πόλιν ὁρῶμεν κοινωνίαν τινὰ οὖσαν καὶ πᾶσαν κοινωνίαν ἀγαθοῦ τινος ἕνεκεν συνεστηκυῖαν (τοῦ γὰρ εἶναι δοκοῦντος ἀγαθοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττουσι πάντες), δῆλον ὡς πᾶσαι μὲν ἀγαθοῦ τινος στοχάζονται, μάλιστα δὲ καὶ τοῦ κυριωτάτου πάντων ἡ πασῶν κυριωτάτη καὶ πάσας περιέχουσα τὰς ἄλλας. αὕτη δʼ ἐστὶν ἡ καλουμένη πόλις καὶ ἡ κοινωνία ἡ πολιτική. ὅσοι μὲν οὖν οἴονται πολιτικὸν καὶ βασιλικὸν καὶ οἰκονομικὸν καὶ δεσποτικὸν εἶναι τὸν αὐτὸν οὐ καλῶς λέγουσιν (πλήθει γὰρ καὶ ὀλιγότητι νομίζουσι διαφέρειν ἀλλʼ οὐκ εἴδει τούτων ἕκαστον, οἷον ἂν μὲν ὀλίγων, δεσπότην, ἂν δὲ πλειόνων, οἰκονόμον, ἂν δʼ ἔτι πλειόνων, πολιτικὸν ἢ βασιλικόν, ὡς οὐδὲν διαφέρουσαν μεγάλην οἰκίαν ἢ μικρὰν πόλιν· καὶ πολιτικὸν δὲ καὶ βασιλικόν, ὅταν μὲν αὐτὸς ἐφεστήκῃ, βασιλικόν, ὅταν δὲ κατὰ τοὺς λόγους τῆς ἐπιστήμης τῆς τοιαύτης κατὰ μέρος ἄρχων καὶ ἀρχόμενος, πολιτικόν· ταῦτα δʼ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀληθῆ)· δῆλον δʼ ἔσται…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/7-book-7/"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/8-book-8/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg035.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg035/local001.json.gz"}}