Scythians, Thracians, Celts, and Persians: Plato on heavy-drinking and war-like peoples (early fourth century BCE)

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Ancient author: Plato, Laws 1.637 (link). Comments: In this portion of his Laws, Plato has his dialogue characters deal with the question of what the ideal Greek law-giver’s stance should be with regard to heavy drinking and drunkenness. A Greek law-giver should ensure control of the passions in the population. Plato has his Athenian character […]