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Classics

The Republic by Plato

In Classics, Hilarius Bogbinder reviews Plato’s Republic.

You may never have heard of Aristocles (428-347 BCE). Well, not under that name, anyway. But if you were reading the sports pages in the (non-existent) Greek newspapers of around 420 BCE, you would know as an eminent wrestler. Indeed, he won the Isthemian Games in this sport, and also had strong feelings about this particular martial art. Like many a purist (then as well as now), he was none too pleased with wrestling when it was all a show; he was also pretty old-school, and praised “the legitimate manoeuvres of regular wrestling – extricating the neck and hands and sides from entanglement” (Laws, 281).

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