Draco

Draco (lawgiver) in Wikipedia

Draco (pronounced /ˈdreɪkoʊ/; from Greek Δράκων, pronounced /ˈdra.kɔːn/) was the first legislator of ancient Athens, Greece, 7th century BC. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Because of its harshness, this code also gave rise to the term "draconian". Life During the 39th ...

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Draco in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Δράκων). A very celebrated Athenian legislator, who flourished about B.C. 621. Suidas tells us that he brought forward his code of laws (θεσμοί) in this year, and that he was then an old man. Aristotle (Pol. ii.fin.) says that Draco adapted his laws to the existing constitution, and that they contained nothing particular beyond the severity of the...

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