ABSTRACT
The Athenian Constitution or Atheniaion Politeia (Adr|vaicov Ilo^ixeia) attributed to Aristotle, is one of 158 reports on the constitutional systems of contemporary states, largely Greek, that were prepared by Aristotle and his students. Although there may be divided opinion about his personal authorship of this work, its ancient ascription to Aristotle is vouchsafed by authoritative modern scholarship: There cannot be the slightest doubt... that in the London papyrus we have the work which was considered in late antiquity as Aristotle's treatise on the Constitution of Athens' (von Fritz and Kapp, 1950, p. 4).1
