Platon et la cité grecque. Théorie et réalité dans la constitution des Lois. Architecture – paysage revised and augmented (1960)

revised and augmented (1960)

Julien Giry and Aurélie Roperch crisscrossed Japan

Paris and New York (January 13–March 12

the visual language of works of art is often opaque and off-putting: it is not uncommon to "understand" an abstract painting more than an altarpiece predella with a half-naked young man pierced by arrows (Saint Sebastian)

representative of the team in charge of the renovation

Platon et la cité grecque. Théorie et réalité dans la constitution des Lois. Architecture – paysage revised and augmented (1960)Why did Plato write the Laws? The work demonstrates an interest in concrete institutions and positive laws that his philosophical project did not a priori justify. The undertaking, immense, had never before been attempted on such a scale. According to Aristotle, Plato intended, in writing this work, to propose a type of constitution more suited to cities than that of the Republic. Comparing the institutions advocated in the Laws with their Greek