Plato expounds his conception of the polis mainly in Republic and Laws; he also does so in Timaeus, Critias and Politicus. In these dialogues as a whole, the philosopher expounds the two senses of the polis. The first sense is the city as the sphere formed by the politeia and the nomos. These unify individuals in a State, that is, the city as a juridical-political-social unit configured by the interrelation between the citizen and the State. The second...