Ebook: Athenian Politics c800-500 BC: a Sourcebook

BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- INTRODUCTION -- I ATTIKE BEFORE SOLON -- The transference of power from the kings to the aristocracy -- 1 Athenaion Politeia 3 -- Notes -- 2 Athenaion Politeia 41.21 -- Notes -- 3 Anonymous, excerpt from Herakleides Lembos, On Constitutions1 -- Notes -- 4 Herakleides Lembos, Epitome of Hermippos, On Lawgivers -- Note -- The unification of Attike -- 5 Thucydides 2.14.1-2.15.2, 2.16.11 -- Notes -- 6 Anonymous, Excerpt from Herakleides Lembos, On Constitutions -- Note -- 7 Plutarch, Theseus 24.1-2, 24.3-4 -- Notes -- Kylon's unsuccessful attempt to establish a tyranny and its aftermath -- 8 Herodotos 5.70.2-5.72.1 -- Notes -- 9 Thucydides 1.126.1-1.127.1 -- Notes -- 10 Athenaion Politeia 1 -- Notes -- 11 Plutarch, Solon 12.1-4, 12.7-9 (abridged) -- Notes -- 12 Scholia1 -- Notes -- The codification of laws by Drakon -- 13 Meiggs and Lewis no. 86=IG I3 104 (409/8 BC)1 -- Notes -- 14 Aristotle, Politics 1274b 15-19 -- Note -- 15 Athenaion Politeia 41 -- Notes -- 16 Plutarch, Solon 17 -- Notes -- II SOLON -- The problems confronting Attike -- 17 Athenaion Politeia 2 -- Notes -- 18 Athenaion Politeia 5.1-2 -- Notes -- 19 Plutarch, Solon 13.1-14.6 -- Notes -- 20 Plutarch, Solon 16.4-5 -- Notes -- Solon: the man and his outlook -- 21 Solon, Fragments 2-31 -- Notes -- 22 Solon, Fragment 4.1-25 in Demosthenes 19 (On the Embassy). 254-5 -- Notes -- 23 Solon, Fragments 4a, 4c, 4b in Athenaion Politeia 5.2-3 -- Notes -- 24 Solon, Fragments 5, 6 and 34 in Athenaion Politeia 12.1-3 -- Notes -- 25 Solon, Fragment 9 in the Vatican Excerpts from Diodoros of Sicily (Diodoros 9.20.2) -- Notes -- 26 Solon, Fragment 13 in Stobaios 3.9.231 -- Notes -- 27 Solon, Fragment 32 in Plutarch, Solon 14.7-8 -- Notes.;First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.