摘要：I. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPT STATEMENT: THE MANIFESTATION AND CONCEPT OF THE SYNGRAPHEIS Among the indications of a certain continuity in the development of Greek "public" law, several institutional starting points which served the development and maintenance of the legal ordinances of the polis stand out. Although their importance is difficult to judge in detail, the Syngrapheis in fifth century * This is the extended and annotated version of a lecture the author delivered on the Congress XLVII of the Société Internationale pour l'Histoire des Droits d'Antiquité, at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, on September 23rd, 1993. To PATRICIA FAY, M.A., the author expresses gratitude for her generous help in translating and proof-reading. 14 CHRISTIAN KOCH Athens possibly assumed just such a role in the development of Athenian law.
