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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
An Athenian inscription, engraved with letters suggestive of the first sixty years of the first century B.C. and published by D. J. Geagan, Hesperia xl (1971) 101-8 with photograph, contains a decree proposed to the demos by Demeas son of Demeas to strengthen a revision of the city's constitution. On its publication it struck me that the revision was democratic and that Geagan's date 84/3 B.C., reached via the uncertainties of the secretary cycle, could not stand. Since repercussions from what was occurring at Rome to Sulla's arrangements might well have been felt in Athens, a different date,equally compatible with the assumed secretary cycle, 70/69 B.C., came to mind, but in the meanwhile the assumed secretary cycle itself has disappeared.
1 On p. 188 of Meritt's, B. D. ‘Athenian Archons 347/6–48/7 B.C.’, Historia xxvi (1977) 161–91Google Scholar.
2 These fragments, probably from the Laws of Theophrastus, are cited by the writer's edition, ‘The Vatican Fragments of Greek Political Theory’, GRBS xviii (1977) 321–39.
3 MacDowell, D. M., ‘Law-making at Athens in the Fourth Century B.C.’, JHS xcv (1975) 62–74CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hansen, M. H., ‘Nomos and Psephisma in Fourth Century Athens’, GRBS xix (1978) 315–30Google Scholar.
4 For the nomophylakia of the Areopagus and its connection with Solon see Arist., Ath. Pol. 8.4Google Scholar.
