About this episode

Melissa Lane discusses the perspectives of Plato and Polybius on constitutional change.

This lecture was recorded by Melissa Lane on the 28th of May 2026 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University and is also Associated Faculty in the Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy. Previously she was Senior University Lecturer at Cambridge University in the Faculty of History and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. She studied for her first degree in Social Studies (awarded summa cum laude) at Harvard Unive...

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Guest: Melissa Lane

Topics covered

• constitutional change
• politics
• history
• philosophy
• classics

Keywords

• Plato
• Polybius
• constitutional change
• politics
• history
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Princeton University, Cambridge University, King’s College, Cambridge, Harvard University

Places: Barnard's Inn Hall, London

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