The ideaΗ ιδέα
What is laid down.
Before there were statutes there were stones: the axones of Solon, the public stēlai, law cut into rock and set up where any citizen could read it. Fixed. Public. Knowable.
The oldest Greek word for it is θεσμός (thes-MÓS): what is laid down, the rule placed by the polis and backed by its authority. It is older than nómos, and it was the work of the thesmothétai, who set the law down and kept it.
THESMÓS takes the laid-down corpus, the ΦΕΚ as it is sourceable today and further back as the sources allow, and makes it whole and living. Each provision is fixed in its place, every relationship between provisions is traced as a living line, and every answer carries the evidence of how it was reached.
Ring, datum, point.
- THE RINGThe whole corpus of the law.A closed circle carrying the full stroke weight. It is never opened.
- THE DATUMWhat is laid down.One horizontal line, never more than a third of the ring's weight. It lies flat. It is the line this whole site is built on.
- THE POINTThe provision in force.The only element in Pompeian red, where corpus and datum meet.
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