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Also in the fifth century nomos (“custom,” “convention”) became the word for “law,” replacing thesmos (“enactment”); this was probably intended to convey the sense that the city’s laws were not imposed from the outside but were a natural development of the city’s customs and traditions. One result of all these reforms was that litigation in18 Elsewhere Aristotle says that Solon “established the democracy by creating courts whose members were drawn from everyone” (Aristotle, Pol. 1274a2–3). 19 This new procedure was called a graphê (“writing,” perhaps because the charge had to be filed in writing) to distinguish it from the traditional suit called dikê.
In some ways the distinction between graphê and dikê mirrors our distinction between criminal and civil actions, respectively, but there are important differences, too, such as the fact that homicide always remained a dikê for the Greeks. CHAPTER 1 - EARLY GREEK LEGAL THOUGHT 17 creased substantially during the fifth century, to the point that the comic poet Aristophanes often joked about Athenian litigiousness (see below). The Athenians undertook several reforms, most notably providing that in some cases a plaintiff who did not receive one-fifth of the jurors’ votes had to pay a stiff fine.
The antiquity and authority of these figures conferred legitimacy and permanence on the 28 On the provenance of this fragment, see Kahn 1997. Although often attributed to Critias, recent opinion is swinging toward taking this as a fragment from a lost play by Euripides. 2 above). To speak of the laws of Athens as the laws of Solon is to invite the sort of respect for them that in the modern United States is evoked by mention of its founding fathers. Legends of lawgivers need not exclude divine sources; indeed, the Lycurgus legend, as we have seen, is consistent with a divine source.