| Columbia Encyclopedia. 2001-2008. | | | | Constitution of Athens |
| | | treatise by Aristotle or a member of his school, written in the late 4th cent. B.C. It was lost until discovered on Egyptian papyrus in 1890. It is a history of the Athenian government and an account of its operation in the time of Aristotle. It is a valuable historical source. | 1 | | See tr. by H. Rackham (rev. ed. 1961); study by J. H. Day and M. Chambers (1962). | 2 | | |
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