---
name: Charondas the Lawgiver
name_greek: Χαρώνδας
eul_aid: azk
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/charondas-the-lawgiver-azk"
period: Archaic
dialect: Ionic (frg)
works_count: 1
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Charondas the Lawgiver

*Χαρώνδας*

**eul_aid:** `azk` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/charondas-the-lawgiver-azk)

Charondas, an archaic lawgiver from the 6th century BCE. Surviving fragments of his legal treatise. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Preambles to the Laws](https://eulogikon.org/works/charondas-preambles-laws-azk-aa) — *Ἀπόσπασμα* · `azk-aa`

## License and provenance

Eulogikon publishes public-domain Greek texts in cleaned, structured, readable form and makes no copyright claim over that preparation (Public Domain Mark 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Author records and the underlying corpus are at https://eulogikon.org/.