CLA160H1 Chapter Notes -Messenia, Panhellenic Games, Iphitos
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Hesiod (works and days) he talks about this. prime law giver and deals out retribution to act unjustly. He talks about dike** (rights and justice) which zeus dispenses to whom governed and personfied as a goddess who sits on his right hand indentify whos ciminal and whos right. More human level, certain institution of las are credited to heroic law givers of the distance past. _- so, he was tended to be regarded as a composite hero who invented out of other stories and he wasn"t real. at sparta, he had a hero shrine thus spartan believed he was an important figure. Have to look at what the spartans value and how he was the original lawgiver. wheterh actual or not, he was important and things credited to him gave clues about themsleves. He associated one of those important marking points in history.
