On Dem. 24.20–23 and the so-called ἐπιχειροτονία τῶν νόμων: Some final clarifications in response to M. H. Hansen

This short article goes back to the problem of the authenticity of the document found at Dem. 24.20–23, with wide implications for the reconstruc- tion of Athenian nomothesia. Without providing a comprehensive response to M. H. Hansen’s recent KLIO article on the topic (M. H. Hansen, The Inserted Doc- ument at Dem. 24.20–23. Response to Mirko Canevaro, KLIO 101, 2019, 452–472; itself a response to a previous KLIO article by M. Canevaro), it clarifies some key issues and clears up some important misunderstandings, also providing new evi- dence against the authenticity of the document.