Ep. 128: A Government of Laws
Young Heretics
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Draco and the Constitution of Athens, Right?
Aristotle is teaching us to recognize something that comes in his kind of rudimentary form, almost out of the soil. And so these developments over time, right, have the kind of shape that Aristotle is Teaching us to recognize. So here's the advent of Draco. The above is an outline of the first constitution. A short time after this in the archonship of Aras psychus, the Archons give their names to years. You get, you know, the archonships year of Aras Psychus when Draco introduced his legislation. Political power had been handed over to those who provided for their own armor.
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