charondas.co.uk
thecharondas.co.uk
(info, net, org, and spanish / french prefix also available)
Would be good for any legal website.
Charondas (Greek Χαρώνδας), a celebrated lawgiver of Catania in Sicily. Some make him a pupil of Pythagoras (c. 580 - 504 BC); but all that can be said is that he was earlier than Anaxilas of Rhegium (494 - 476 BC), since his laws were in use amongst the Rhegians. His laws, originally written in verse, were adopted by the other Chalcidic colonies in Sicily and Italy. Charondas introduced actions for perjury. The story that Charondas killed himself because he entered the public assembly wearing a sword, which was a violation of his own law, is also told of Diodes and Zaleucus (Diod. Sic. 12.19.1-2). The fragments of laws attributed to him by Stobaeus and Diodorus are of late (neo-Pythagorean) origin.