The Clarendon Aristotle Series of translations and commentaries of the This detailed and learned edition fills the only remaining gap left by those of Saunders (Books I and II), Robinson (III and IV) and Kraut (VII and VIII; reviewed. in BMCR 99.6.17). The organization of the Politics belies the economy of this four-part division. Books V and VI belong thematically with book IV as a discussion of less than ideal constitutions and the causes of revolutions that threaten them. But the harshness of the division is mitigated by this commentary's concentration on individual passages and prefer "authoritative") and "constitution" for POLITEI/A (Kraut uses "political system"). ...
