HISB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Diodorus Siculus, Politeia, Dreros
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New constitutional orders: new and changing conceptions of the polis at the end of the. Be willing to lead a pious life with few possessions rather than be rich as a result of their unjust acquisition. In a word, all virtue is to be found in justice and everyone who is just, kyrnos, is an excellent man. More tyrants in constitutional and institutional details. A lot of these details/sources come from crete. The kosmos and the damioi and the twenty of the polis shall swear to this. However, one may be a kosmos again but there must be a 10 year gap in between. Twenty of the polis: a small sub-committee. Scribes were given benefits just to write things down. Agora: marketplace, and central community (especially in athens: where most of these stone writings were. Early examinations of the gortyn code from crete, ca. Though not written all at once, it codified for the people of gortyn the normoi (sing.
