title: Draco’s Constitution and Political Ideas of Athenian Oligarchs
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metadata.value: Verlinsky, Alexander
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-02-18T16:09:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-02-18T16:09:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Alexander Verlinsky. Draco’s Constitution and Political Ideas of Athenian Oligarchs. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (2), 186–206.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35167
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the article which serves as a sequel to an earlier one the author argues that Draco’s constitution
  (DC) in Arist. AP 4 does not derive from an oligarchic political pamphlet in which it
  served as a prototype of a constitution to be implemented in Athens as the majority of scholars
  believe. The preponderance of scholars believe, relying on the alleged similarity of DC to the
  project of the ‘Constitution of Five Thousands’ (AP 30) in 411 BC, that DC emerged in the
  same ‘moderate’ oligarchic circles as a project of the same kind. Others propose later dates
  for its appearance but almost unanimously ascribe to oligarchic moderates who pleaded for a
  ‘hoplite constitution.’ The author argues contra that although DC is not reliable as a historical
  document, it differs considerably from the known political projects of oligarchs. Its distinguishing
  features make it anachronistic for conditions of 5th–4th centuries BC, but they are
  much more at home in the last decades of 7th BC. It is likely that Aristotle found this fictional
  account in one of the historical sources he used in the AP in which it was fabricated to fill a
  gap in the lacunose history of the early Athenian constitution and it may have been meant to
  diminish tendentiously Solon’s contribution, representing the latter as modifying the already
  existing state order.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Aristotle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Draco’s constitution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political ideas of Athenian oligarchs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical sources of Arist. AP
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Draco’s Constitution and Political Ideas of Athenian Oligarchs
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metadata.value: Article
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