Laudator Temporis Acti: The Earliest Record of a Curfew?

The Earliest Record of a Curfew?

Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 5.214 d (tr. Charles Burton Gulick, on Athenion, with Gulick's footnote):

He also proclaimed that all should stay indoors after sunset,^b and nobody might go out even with a lantern.

^b The earliest record of a curfew?

The Greek:

ἐκήρυσσέν τε δύντος ἡλίου πάντας οἰκουρεῖν καὶ μετὰ λυχνοφόρου μηδένα φοιτᾶν.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 4:51 AM

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