Charondas

Charondas (Greek Χαρώνδας ), born in Catana, lived in the 7th century BC and was a Greek philosopher and legislator.

He gave his native city and others Chalcidian colonies in Italy and Sicily laws that were related to the entire public and domestic life and a strict moral spirit and character building their object. They were held in high regard and have been adopted by many cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily.

Any change in the laws made ​​it difficult Charondas fact that he stated, the one who make a law proposal should appear with a rope around his neck, to be instantly strangled if his proposal fell through.

Anecdote

As Charondas once, returning from a trip, armed entered the People's Assembly and was made aware that he thus his own law overturn, but prohibited by which armed appearance, he shouted: No, by Jove, I affirm it! and the sword thrust into his chest.

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• Greek ( Ancient )
• Sicilian
• Philosopher ( Antiquity)
• Born in the 8th or 7th century BC
• Died in the 7th or 6th century BC
• Man