Drakon

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn).

Drakon

1. Alternative form of Draco (“Athenian lawgiver”).
   • 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:

     [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.

   • 1990, Philip Brook Manville, “Laws, Boundaries, and Centralization”, in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1992 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 79:

     Whatever the extent of the lost code of Drakon, the creation of any fixed public laws signals a symbolic change and the emergence of an important new mentality.

   • 2006, Peter Liddel, “Democracy Established”, in John Stevenson, editor, The Rise and Fall of the Classical World: 2500 BC–600 AD (The History of Europe), London: Mitchell Beazley, →ISBN, section 10 (Ancient Greece), “The Archaic and Classical Periods: 750–336 BC” subsection, page 32, column 3:

     The Athenians claimed that their earliest constitution was the work of the lawgiver Drakon in 620 BC.

   • 2015, Josiah Ober, “Citizens and Specialization before 550 bce”, in The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 2016 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 148:

     It remains unclear what (if any) other matters were addressed in the laws of Drakon, although in later Athenian legend, he was believed to have prescribed death for a wide range of offenses.

• Drakonian

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑkon/, [ˈdrɑ̝ko̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑkon
• Syllabification^(key): Dra‧kon
• Hyphenation^(key): Dra‧kon

Drakon

1. Draco (Athenian lawgiver)

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