The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. Every effort has been taken to translate the unique features of the printed book into the HTML medium. Bibliography See tr. IX. According to his point of view, the choice made by the Athenians was not admirable because it allowed some of the most corrupted people to become richer and comfortable. by H. Rackham (rev. the Athenian constitution could make the Athenians like Demetrius' laws better -and this because the chapter showed them to bear some likeness to provisions of the time of Draco, the very symbol of an oppressive oligarchic regime. Bibliography. It is a valuable historical source. CHAP. Constitution of Athens, treatise by Aristotle or a member of his school, written in the late 4th cent. options are on the right side and top of the page. CHAP. The Aristotelian text is unique because it is not a part of the Corpus Aristotelicum. It is a history of the Athenian government and an account of its operation in the time of Aristotle. He starts with the criticism about the type of constitution which the Athenians selected for them. Constitution of Athens, treatise by Aristotle or a member of his school, written in the late 4th cent. Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an analysis of Athens’ political machinery between the seventh and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a model of democracy at a time when city-states lived under differing kinds of government. The treatise was composed between 330 and 322 BC. As for the constitution of the Athenians, their choice of this type of constitution I do not approve, for in choosing thus they choose that thieves should fare better than the elite. H. Rackham translation (Loeb 1935) Edited with notes by E. Edward Garvin (2013) Forward: The The following is an abridged copy of the translator's introduction to the 1935 Loeb volume, with slight emendations by the current editor. And as for the fact that the Athenians have chosen the kind of constitution that they have, I do not think well of their doing this inasmuch as in making their choice they have chosen to let the worst people be better off than the good. XLI. Your current position in the text is marked in blue. : Overthrow of the Areopagus by Ephialtes and Themistokles. SECTION 1. H. Rackham translation (Loeb 1935) Edited with notes by E. Edward Garvin (2013) Forward: The The following is an abridged copy of the translator's introduction to the 1935 Loeb volume, The writer of The Athenian Constitution, the pseudo Xenophon, or Old Oligarch, describes about this. Pages: 2-182 Word count: 16828 Notes: with an English translation by H. Rackham. ("Agamemnon", "Hom. It has proved invaluable in helping to understand the Historical development of Democracy. CHAP. CHAP. 253-273 The Athenian Constitution After the Bronze Age, Mycenaean people populated Greece and had an advanced, elaborate, and complex culture ruled by kings from 3000 BC to 1000 BC. : The constitution as proposed for the immediate present. Osborne addresses the date and purpose of composition first in three subsections under the following rubrics: the internal evidence for date of composition (pp. ed. XIII. The present state of the constitution is as follows. On the other hand, the foreign possessions of Athens are limited to Lemnos, Imbros, Scyros, Delos and Samos. LVII. The codex describes the political system of Classical Athens, commonly called the Areopagite Constitution, written between 328 BC and 322 BC. : Terms of the reconciliation. XXII. 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