Symposion 2019, pp. 263-282, 2021/12/15
Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Hamburg, 26.‒28. August 2019)
In this paper I investigate the legal and institutional reforms or innovationsthat were introduced in the period 307-301 BC, a period recorded as the restorationof democracy, the rationale behind them and the tensions that developed whenroyals were involved in the day-to-day administration of public affairs in anindependent, autonomous polis.
Keywords: Athenian democracy and legislation, Demetrios I Poliorcetes, Stratokles of Diomeia, Demochares of Leukonoe, tribes (phylai)