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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHARONDAS

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 948 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHARONDAS , a celebrated lawgiver of Catina in Sicily. His date is uncertain. Some make him a pupil of
Pythagoras
  (c. 580504 B.c.) ; but all that can be said is that he was earlier than Anaxilaus of Rhegium (494476), since his
laws
  were in use amongst the Rhegians until they were abolished by thattyrant. His
laws
 , originally written in verse, were adopted by the other Chalcidic colonies in Sicily and Italy. According to
Aristotle
  there was nothing
special
  about these laws, except that Charondas introduced actions for perjury; but he speaks highly of the precision with which they were
drawn
  up (Politics, ii. 12). The story that Charondas killed himself because he entered the public assembly wearing a
sword
 , which was a violation of his own law, is also told of Diocles and
Zaleucus
  (Diod. Sic. xii. 11-19). The fragments of laws attributed to him by Stobaeus and Diodorus are of
late
  (neo-Pythagorean) origin.
See
Bentley
 , On Phalaris, which (according to B. Niese s.v. in Pauly, Realencyclopadie) contains what is even now the best account of Charondas; A. Holm, Geschichte Siciliens, i.; F. D. Gerlach, Zaleukos, Charondas, and
Pythagoras
  (1858); also art. GREEK LAW.


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