Zaleucus
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Zaleucus the Locrian
in the texts
Stromata
Locrian legislator whose laws were, per tradition, received from Athena.
and Chamaeleon of Heraclea, in his work On Drunkenness, and Aristotle, in his Constitution of the Locrians, record that Zaleucus the Locrian received his laws from Athena.
And Zaleucus the Locrian is recorded as the first to lay down laws, though some say it was Minos, the son of Zeus, in the time of Lynceus.
Orations
Lawgiver of the Epizephyrian Locrians, named among lawgivers whose codes people dispute.
All of them squabble over the laws of Solon and Draco and Numa and Zaleucus, as to which of these, and not those, they shall follow—though none even of those lawgivers laid down what they ought.
Letters to Lucilius
Lawgiver credited with laws for Sicily, said to have learned law in Pythagoras's retreat.
The laws of Zaleucus and Charondas men admire;