Aristoteles und Athen

Volume 2 (1893) is an attempted reconstruction of Athenian constitutional history on the basis of the Constitution of the Athenians.

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) was a prominent German philologist. In Volume 2 of this 1893 book he offers a detailed reconstruction of Athenian constitutional history on the basis of the Constitution of the Athenians, together with a number of essays addressing various points in Athenian political history.Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) was one of the most prominent German philologists of his time and his work is still well regarded. This book, originally published in 1893, is a detailed analysis of the The Constitution of the Athenians, then usually (though not universally) regarded as a work of Aristotle. Wilamowitz accepts Aristotle's authorship of the famous treatise on the history of the constitution that restored democracy after the oligarchy of the Thirty (403 BCE). Volume 2 reconstructs Athenian constitutional history on the basis of the work. A number of essays addressing topics on Athenian constitutional history and drawing on such figures as Solon, Peisistratus, Lysias and Isocrates are also included.