Open research data connected with research funded by the National Science Centre (Poland) by project no.2022/45/N/HS3/02918, entitled The Intellectual Background of the Law Reform in Late Fifth-Century BCE Athens, conducted at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw.
The objective of the project is to broaden the understanding of the roots and peculiarity of the 410–399 BCE Athenian legal reform, casting it against the intellectual background of classical Athens. In the project, I analysed the corpus of sources related strictly to the chronology of work of the legal commission (as Andoc. § 1, Lys § 30 and a few preserved inscriptions containing revised laws). Moreover, I examined such 5th-century sources as historical works, drama, 5th-century BCE decrees and laws (in the form of inscriptions), sophistic and philosophical texts, other forensic speeches, and to some extent 4th-century sources.
This research data, and the files related to it, contain basic information about the sources used for analysing legal, procedural, and cultural dimensions of the project, providing also the most important bibliographical information with edition (with critical apparatus), translation, and commentaries of the printed sources.
The first file [NR 1 EPIGRAPHY] contains information on epigraphical sources mainly related to Athenian law reform in the late fifth century BCE (edition, translations, and commentaries). Additionally, it contains a Polish translation (from the classical Greek) of the prescript of the inscription with Draco's homicide law: IG I3 104 (translation my own).
The second file [NR 2 LAW REFORM] contains the results of the historical inquiry of the mainly literary sources related to late fifth-century BCE law reform in Athens, with relevant English translations (mostly minor modifications, my own, to the already published translation by various authors), plus a bibliography.
PI: M.A. Radosław Miśkiewicz.
Supervisor: Prof. Marek Węcowski (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw).
Main place of conducting research: Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. Some of the research was also conducted in consultation with scholars from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (e.g., Prof. Jakub Urbanik). The research benefited broadly from Raphael Taubenschlag Library of Papyrology, Roman Law and Law of Antiquity (University of Warsaw).
(2026)
