ANDREAS
PAPADOPOULOS
The Constitution of the Athenians by Aristotle has been preserved almost in its entirety on a papyrus discovered only in 1890. Its composition and circulation are dated between 329 and 327 BCE, that is, toward the end of Aristotle’s life and that of his pupil Alexander the Great, as well as the end of the entire Classical period.
By narrating the origins and development of Athens and of radical democracy, it demonstrates that man is indeed a “political animal by nature,” as also argued in his Politics.
This is the author’s second book on the Stagirite, following Aristotle and Crete, which has been published alongside Plato and Crete in the same series.
