History · 1891

The Athenian Constitution

The Constitution of Athens, in sixty-nine parts

by Aristotle

Translated by Frederic G. Kenyon (1891)

The one surviving 'constitution' of the 158 that Aristotle's school compiled: a history of Athenian government from Draco and Solon to the fall of the Thirty and the restored democracy, followed by an account of how the city's offices and law courts worked in Aristotle's own day.


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