Note 202 — BOOK IV JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA (continued 3)

Before that time. But such speculation was going on then. There is some interesting economic theory in Plato’s Republic, and Aristotle was writing the œconomica. Xenophon wrote on Athenian revenues and other economic matters. Thucycides wrote an excellent passage on the Greek past, and Aristotle dealt with barbaric customs.—E. B.