The sources of Constitution of the Athenians

1. Constitution of the Athenians Aristotle 1 authority 1 citation · 6 passages

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   Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians is invoked repeatedly as the authoritative source underlying nearly every testimonium in this window, including one paragraph that quotes it directly by name.

   for this is divided into three parts, thirds and races and brotherhoods, as Aristotle says in the Constitution of the Athenians.

2. Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Herodotus is explicitly named as the source for one version of the Phye episode, reported neutrally alongside an alternative.

   For having first spread a report that Athena was bringing Pisistratus back, and having found a tall and beautiful woman—as Herodotus says, from the deme of the Paeanians, but as some say, a Thracian garland-seller from Collytus, whose name was Phye—he had her imitate the goddess in her adornment and brought her in along with him;

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Ancestral laws of Cleisthenes · Decree of Pythodorus · Decree of Thrasybulus · Draco's ordinances · Homicide law by offense category · Law of Solon on the treasurers of Athena · Law on age-class arbitration duty · Law on arbitrators' civic-rights forfeiture · Law on corn-meal and bread pricing · Law on payment for deficient officials · Law on the disabled maintenance allowance · Laws of Solon · Solon's laws · Solon's poems (verses on land redistribution) · Solon's poems (verses on the Seisachtheia) · Solon's poems (verses on the people and the powerful) · Solon's poems (verses reproaching both parties) · Terms of reconciliation (archonship of Eucleides) · Traditional scrutiny formula (dokimasia questions) · ancestral law against tyranny · drinking-songs (skolia) on Cedon · drinking-songs (skolia) on Leipsydrion · elegy on the strife of Ionia (Solon's poems) · oracles of the Pythia

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1. Constitution of the Athenians Aristotle 1 authority 1 citation · 6 passages

   ch. 1 6 passages anchored here

   Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians is invoked repeatedly as the authoritative source underlying nearly every testimonium in this window, including one paragraph that quotes it directly by name.

   for this is divided into three parts, thirds and races and brotherhoods, as Aristotle says in the Constitution of the Athenians.