Drakon

English Etymology en grc Δρᾰ́κων. Proper noun en Draco Athenian lawgiver. en 1976 Lilian Hamilton Jeffery Kylon and Drakon Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c. New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica) 86 https://archive.org/details/archaicgreece0000unse/page/86/mode/1up 75-10758 2168157 [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon. en 1990 Philip Brook Manville Laws, Boundaries, and Centralization The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 1992 (2nd printing) 79 https://archive.org/details/originsofcitizen0000manv/page/79/mode/1up 0-691-09442-X Whatever the extent of the lost code of Drakon, the creation of any fixed public laws signals a symbolic change and the emergence of an important new mentality. en 2006 Peter Liddel Democracy Established John Stevenson The Rise and Fall of the Classical World: 2500 BC–600 AD The History of Europe London w:Mitchell Beazley section 10 (Ancient Greece), “The Archaic and Classical Periods: 750–336 BC” subsection 32 https://archive.org/details/risefallofclassi0000unse/page/32/mode/1up 3 1 8453 3162 1 The Athenians claimed that their earliest constitution was the work of the lawgiver Drakon in 620 BC. en 2015 w:Josiah Ober Citizens and Specialization before 550 bce The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 2016 (3rd printing) 148 https://archive.org/details/risefallofclassi0000ober/page/148/mode/1up 978-0-691-17314-6 It remains unclear what (if any) other matters were addressed in the laws of Drakon, although in later Athenian legend, he was believed to have prescribed death for a wide range of offenses. Derived terms en Drakonian Finnish Etymology Borrowed from fi grc Δρᾰ́κων. Pronunciation Proper noun Draco Athenian lawgiver Declension Drakon a 0 sg Derived terms fi drakoninen Anagrams fi adknor dorkan