Laws (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Laws (version 2), credited to Plato (Πλάτων), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Laws (version 2) by Plato (Πλάτων). (Translated by Benjamin Jowett.) Read in English by Jim Locke Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in prison. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Laws (version 2)
• Author credits: Plato (Πλάτων)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 25:33:18

Catalogue topics

• political philosophy
• philosophy
• Greek
• plato
• laws
• aristotle
• Ancient Greek
• crete

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Introduction and Analysis Part 1 — 30:29
2. 02 - Introduction and Analysis Part 2 — 55:35
3. 03 - The Preamble Part 1 — 47:18
4. 04 - The Preamble Part 2 — 48:55
5. 05 - The Preamble Part 3 — 46:14
6. 06 - The Preamble Part 4 — 39:01
7. 07 - The Preamble Part 5 — 42:03
8. 08 - The Preamble Part 6 — 40:44
9. 09 - The Preamble Part 7 — 37:49
10. 10 - The Preamble Part 8 — 40:02
11. 11 - The Preamble Part 9 — 32:59
12. 12 - The Preamble Part 10 — 33:37
13. 13 - The Preamble Part 11 — 38:20
14. 14 - The Preamble Part 12 — 29:24
15. 15 - Excursus Part 1 — 37:00
16. 16 - Excursus Part 2 — 34:46
17. 17 - Book 1 Part 1 — 41:57
18. 18 - Book 1 Part 2 — 37:11
19. 19 - Book 2 Part 1 — 32:57
20. 20 - Book 2 Part 2 — 34:49
21. 21 - Book 3 Part 1 — 45:16
22. 22 - Book 3 Part 2 — 29:44
23. 23 - Book 4 — 52:57
24. 24 - Book 5 Part 1 — 32:36

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