One of the new cities of Magna…

669 BCE to 658 BCE

One of the new cities of Magna Graecia, Locri Epizephyrii (the Locrians who live next to the [Cape] Zephyrium, called thus to distinguish themselves from the Locri of Greece) is the first Greek community to have a written code of laws, given by Zaleucus around 660 BCE.

He decrees that anyone who proposes a change in the laws should do so with a noose about their neck, with which they should be hanged if the amendment did not pass.

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Locri Calabria Italy View →

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Dorians View → Greece, classical View → Italy, classical View → Magna Graecia View →

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