Pausanias' Description of Greece

Draco

Family: Athens · Role: lawgiver · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 11

Book 6 · Chapter 11

  • with Theagenes of Thasos (Draco's law governed the treatment of Theagenes's statue.) “the Thasians threw the statue into the sea, obeying the code of Draco, who in legislating for the Athenians banished even inanimate things if they killed anyone by falling upon him.”

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