Greece

Constitution of the Athenians

Athenaion Politeia

Recovered on a papyrus roll acquired by the British Museum in 1890 after being lost since antiquity, this account of Athens's constitutional history and the functioning of its offices had been known previously only through fragments quoted by later authors.

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