The MouseionAristotleConstitution of the Athenians
Constitution of the AtheniansRes Publica Atheniensium
By Aristotle.
- Kind of writing
- Philosophy
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 4th c. BC
- Length
- 18,897 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 73% common words
- In the library
- 3 Greek texts, 0 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textAristotle. Aristotelis Res Publica Atheniensium. Kenyon, Frederic, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1903.
- Greek textAristotle. Aristotelis Res Publica Atheniensium. Kenyon, Frederic, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1903.
- Greek textAristotle. Aristotelis Atheniensium Respublica. Kenyon, Frederic G, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
Voting a man out of Athens for ten years, on a broken potOstracismOnce a year the citizens of Athens could decide to hold a strange election.The mines that paid for Athens' fleet, and the slaves who worked themThe silver of LaurionThe fleet that beat the Persians at Salamis in 480 BC was paid for with silver dug out of the hills of southern Attica.How Athenian potters made pictures that have lasted 2,500 yearsBlack-figure and red-figureThe painted pots of Athens are the largest body of Greek pictures to survive: gods and heroes, athletes and drinkers, weddings, funerals and battles, on thousands of vessels that were made to be used.The aristocrat who led the Athenian democracy for a generationPericlesFor about thirty years in the middle of the fifth century BC, the most powerful man in Athens held only an office the Assembly filled by vote every year: general.How Athens trusted chance, and built a machine to make sure nobody cheated itChosen by lot: the allotment machineModern democracies choose their officials by election.