Who was the magistrate in Athens who codified its laws around 600 BC?
Draconian constitution were fined three drachmas. Knights were fined two drachmas, and "zeugites" one drachma. Aristotle's timeline of the Draconian constitution is characterized by the vague phrase "not very long after": Given the founding of Athens by Cecrops I and its first constitution in 1556 BC, its legal framework would have functioned for over 900 years before Draco codified the laws and drafted his constitution around 620 BC. Therefore, subsequently, commentators assume that the phrase "not very long after" refers instead to the more-recent Cylonian affair. Aristotle's undefined use of "Prytanes" refers to a number of Athenian state positions during and after
Greece in the 5th century BC Persians) to challenge Athenian naval supremacy, and had found a brilliant military leader in Lysander, who seized the strategic initiative by occupying the Hellespont, the source of Athens' grain imports. Threatened with starvation, Athens sent its last remaining fleet to confront Lysander, who decisively defeated them at Aegospotami (405 BC). The loss of her fleet threatened Athens with bankruptcy. In 404 BC Athens sued for peace, and Sparta dictated a predictably stern settlement: Athens lost her city walls, her fleet, and all of her overseas possessions. Lysander abolished the Athenian democracy and appointed a council of thirty to govern Athens