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Which part of Draco’s law code did Solon keep unchanged?
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When Solon revised the Athenian legal system in 594 BCE, he repealed the majority of the Draconian laws due to their extreme severity, which famously prescribed the death penalty for nearly all criminal offenses.123
The only part of Draco’s original code that Solon kept unchanged was the statute regarding homicide.123