In lof gesmoord zou volgens verhalen het lot zijn geweest van de Griek Draco. Geen onbelangrijk figuur. Aan hem hebben we de term draconisch te danken.
During the 39th Olympiad, in 622 or 621 BC, Draco established the legal code with which he is identified.
Little is known about his life. He may have belonged to the Greek nobility of Attica, with which the 10th-century Suda text records him as contemporaneous, prior to the period of the Seven Sages of Greece. It also relates a folkloric story of his death in the Aeginetan theatre.[2] In a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters “threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre”.[3] The truth about his death is still unclear, but it is known that Draco was driven out of Athens by the Athenians to the neighbouring island of Aegina, where he spent the remainder of his life.[4]
