Abstract / Description of output
This article discusses the authenticity of the document preserved at Dem. 24.105. This purportedly reports two laws, one about theft and the other about parent abusers, draft dodgers and homicides. Scholars have often believed it to provide reliable information about the procedures of dike klopes, apagoge phonou and apagoge against atimoi. This analysis shows that the document is inconsistent with other, reliable, information about the same topics and its language does not
conform to that of contemporary official documents on stone. The document must be deemed a late forgery and no part of it can be considered reliable.
conform to that of contemporary official documents on stone. The document must be deemed a late forgery and no part of it can be considered reliable.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 25-47 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |