What is it about?
The common meals in Plato's political theory serve a variety of purposes, social, civil, and political.
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Why is it important?
the common meals are usually ignored in discussions of Plato's political theory.
Perspectives
The meals are discussed in some detail, though not systematically, in Plato's last work, The laws.
Professor Michael Jackson
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Commensality, Politics, and Plato, Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture, May 2017, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/gfc.2017.17.2.51.
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