All Greek Lawgivers

Greek Lawgivers gathers the lawgivers of Archaic and Classical Greece, the semi-legendary and historical figures credited with issuing the first written law codes for their own Greek city-states, replacing earlier unwritten aristocratic custom with codified, publicly known law. Its members include Draco, whose harsh Athenian code gave the English language the word draconian, and Charondas of Catania, a Greek colony in Sicily, whose own code influenced law across the wider Greek world of Sicily and southern Italy.