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Books like Laws

Across Ancient Civilizations, Greece, Legal History, and Political — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Laws by Plato.

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Top related books to Laws

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Laws.

The Gorgias of Plato

Plato

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Political

Plato and the Tyrant The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

James Romm

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Political

Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, the Man Who Invented History

Emily Katz Anhalt

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Political

Xenophon’s Minor Works (1908)

Xenophon

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

Four Aspects Of Civic Duty

Howard Taft William

Themes: Legal History • Political • Politics & Social Sciences

Antisthenes The Founder of Cynicism

Charles Chappuis

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

The Works of Aristotle

Aristotle

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

Lysias: Selected Speeches (1905)

Lysias

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

The Kybalion A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

Three Initiates

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

#10

Diogenes The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic

Inger N. I. Kuin

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

#11

Why Plato Matters Now

Angie Hobbs

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

#12

The Cults of the Greek States; Volume 2

Lewis Richard Farnell

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

#13

The Philosophy Of Ancient Greece Investigated

Walter Anderson

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

#14

Ancient Greece A Sketch of Its Art, Literature and Philosophy

Cotterill H B (Henry Bernard)

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Politics & Social Sciences

#15

Ancient Greek Laws A Sourcebook

Ilias Arnaoutoglou

Themes: Greece • Legal History • Law

#16

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: III. The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato

Werner Jaeger

Themes: Greece • Legal History • Law

#17

A Commonwealth of Hope Augustine’s Political Thought

Michael Lamb

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Political • Politics & Social Sciences

#18

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, With the Manual of Epictetus, and a Summary of Christi

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Political • Politics & Social Sciences

#19

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Political • Politics & Social Sciences

#20

The Law

Frederic Bastiat

Themes: Legal History • Political • Law

#21

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender (Ancient Lives)

James Romm

Themes: Ancient Civilizations • Greece • Political

#22

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

James Fitzjames Stephen

Themes: Legal History • Political • Law

#23

Cesare Beccaria The Genius of “On Crimes and Punishments&#8221

John Hostettler

Themes: Legal History • Political • Law

#24

Stasis Civil War as a Political Paradigm : Homo Sacer, II, 2

Giorgio Agamben

Themes: Legal History • Political • Law

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Laws by Plato. Connected by Ancient Civilizations, Greece, Legal History. Authors featured include Plato, James Romm, Emily Katz Anhalt, Xenophon, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.