 Plato’s Crito is noteworthy not only as the first philosophical exploration of political obligation but also as the last to appear for centuries. To be sure, the Cynics and others did question the value of political life, and indirectly the existence of an obligation to obey the law, but they left no record of a discussion of the subject as sustained as even the five or six pages in the Crito. When the morality of obedience and disobedience next became a much discussed issue, it was a religious as much as a philosophical discussion.