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Draco
(834 words)

(Δράκων; Drákōn)

[German version]

[2] Athenian lawmaker c. 620 BC

Athenian lawmaker said to have enacted in 621/20 BC the first ‘statutes’ (θεσμοί; thesmoí) set down in writing. We know as little about D. personally as we do about his activity as a lawmaker: he was perhaps one of the  Thesmothetai and/or given special authority [1. 31]. His laws were written down …

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Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim (Cologne) and Montanari, Franco (Pisa), “Draco”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e324090>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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