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Headword:
*nomoqe/tai
Adler number: nu,472
Translated headword: lawgivers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Among [the] Athenians the first was Drakon and after him
Solon and after him
Thales and after him
Aeschylus.
Greek Original:*nomoqe/tai: par' *)aqhnai/ois prw=tos e)ge/neto *dra/kwn kai\ met' au)to\n *so/lwn kai\ meta\ tou=ton *qalh=s kai\ meta\ tou=ton *ai)sxu/los.
Note:
The sequence starts well enough (for Drakon see
delta 1495; for
Solon,
sigma 776,
sigma 777,
sigma 779), but
Thales was not an Athenian (see
theta 17) and the tragedian
Aeschylus (
alphaiota 357) not, in any reasonable sense, a lawgiver. Some enlightenment comes from the fuller version of all this in Joannes Malalas,
Chronographia p.72 Dindorf (now IV.6 Thurn (51); cf. Jeffreys et al. (35)), where "
Aeschylus" turns out to be one of the early Athenian kings; but the chronology is all over the place (and
Thales "the Milesian" is still part of it).
References:
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; history; law
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 December 2000@04:48:11.
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