Νομοθέται
lawgivers
Translated by David Whitehead11 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νομοθέται· παρ' Ἀθηναίοις πρῶτος ἐγένετο Δράκων καὶ μετ' αὐτὸν Σόλων καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Θαλῆς καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Αἰσχύλος.
Betacode
*nomoqe/tai: par' *)aqhnai/ois prw=tos e)ge/neto *dra/kwn kai\ met' au)to\n *so/lwn kai\ meta\ tou=ton *qalh=s kai\ meta\ tou=ton *ai)sxu/los.
Notes
- The sequence starts well enough (for Drakon see delta 1495; for Solon, sigma 776, sigma 777, sigma 779), but Thales was not an Athenian (see theta 17) and the tragedian Aeschylus (alphaiota 357) not, in any reasonable sense, a lawgiver. Some enlightenment comes from the fuller version of all this in Joannes Malalas, Chronographia p.72 Dindorf (now IV.6 Thurn (51); cf. Jeffreys et al. (35)), where "Aeschylus" turns out to be one of the early Athenian kings; but the chronology is all over the place (and Thales "the Milesian" is still part of it).
References
J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
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Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Jul 2026
- added bibliography — Ronald Allen
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note; added keyword — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead