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Megarian Decree: name of the Athenian policy to bar merchants from Megara from the Athenian markets. In the winter of 433/432, or perhaps a bit earlier, the Athenian politician Pericles proposed, and the Assembly accepted, a law that has become known as the "Megarian Decree".
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Of course, Aristophanes is writing comedy, and he gives the Megarian Decree a farcical twist. We are supposed to believe that the embargo was caused by drunken boys who carried of a prostitute from Megara: a parody on the first chapters of the Histories by Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which in turn was based on the great...
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THE MEGARIAN DECREE, 433/2 B.C. In either late 433 B.C. or in early 432 B.C. the Athenian assmbly passed the Megarian Decree, which excluded Megarian merchants from the markets of the Athenian Empire.
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Encyclopedia: Megarian decree
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SUPPLEMENTING THUCYDIDES' ACCOUNT OF THE MEGARIAN DECREE (*) The argument that the exclusion decree was in fact, an earlier embargo upon Megarian produce, rests awkwardly upon a literal reading of a passage in Aristophanes' Acharnians, a comedy which, it must be emphasised,
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Megara (Greek: Μέγαρα, "Big Houses") is an ancient city (pop. 23,032 in 2001) in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of...
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The Megarian Decree was a set of economic sanctions levied upon Megara circa 432 BC by the Athenian Empire shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
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The 'Megarian Decree' was a set of economic sanctions levied upon Megara circa 433 BC by the Athenian Empire shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. ★ Megarian Decree from Livius.Org...
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