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A late seventh century BCE Athenian statesman who is perhaps unjustly noted for the severity of his code of laws.

In 621 BCE, Drako was given special authority and a mandate to revise the laws of the city of Athens; the laws he instituted were revisions and improvements of the existing laws and were considered necessary in order to purge the antiquated legal system of Athens from its history of vigilante justice and punishment without the benefit of a public trial.

Later legislators, such as Solon, deemed Drako’s system of justice too harsh and repealed all but a few of his laws; in modern times, the term Draconian is used to describe laws which seem unjust or cruel.

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