Monday, March 04, 2019
Democracy Crowning Demos
A.J.L. Blanshard, "Depicting Democracy: An Exploration of Art and Text in the Law of Eukrates,"
Journal of Hellenic Studies 124 (2004) 1-15, plate 1(b):
For the law of Eukrates, see Greek Historical Inscriptions: 404-323 BC. Edited with introduction, translations, and commentaries by P. J. Rhodes and Robin Osborne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, rpt. 2007), pp. 388-392, number 79. An excerpt from the law (Inscriptiones Graecae II3 1 320 = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 12.87):
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For the law of Eukrates, see Greek Historical Inscriptions: 404-323 BC. Edited with introduction, translations, and commentaries by P. J. Rhodes and Robin Osborne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, rpt. 2007), pp. 388-392, number 79. An excerpt from the law (Inscriptiones Graecae II3 1 320 = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 12.87):
If any one rises up against the people for a tyranny or joins in setting up the tyranny or overthrows the people of Athens or the democracy at Athens, whoever kills the man who has done any of these things shall be undefiled.
ἐάν τις ἐπαναστῆι τῶι δήμωι ἐπὶ τυραννίδι ἢ τὴν τυραννίδα συνκαταστήσηι ἢ τὸν δῆμον τὸν Ἀθηναίων ἢ τὴν δημοκρατίαν τὴν Ἀθήνησιν καταλύσηι, ὃς ἂν τὸν τούτων τι ποιήσαντα ἀποκ<τ>είνηι, ὅσιος ἔστω.
