A note on the athloi in Drakon's homicide law

Thomas Heine Nielsen

A note on the athloi in Drakon's homicide law

Saxo-Instituttet - Arkæologi, Etnologi, Historie og Græsk og Latin

Abstract

This note discusses the implication for the history of Greek athletics of the reference to athloi in Drakon's law on homicide of the 620s. It is argued that the reference is in all probability to athletic competitions incorporated into recurrent religious festivals outside Attika.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum
Vol/bind	26
Udgave nummer	2013
Sider (fra-til)	27-31
Antal sider	5
ISSN	0934-8913
Status	Udgivet - 2013

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Det Humanistiske Fakultet
Drakon
homicide law
athloi
religious festivals
athletics

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A note on the athloi in Drakon's homicide law

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