The Constitution of Athens is a document attributed to Aristotle that describes the political system of ancient Athens.  The work is in two parts.  The first part, chapters 1 - 41, describes the evolution of the various versions of the constitution up to 403 BC. The second part describes the city's institutions and how they operate. Chronicles of ancient scholars indicate that it stemmed from an assignment given to Aristotle's students to prepare descriptions of the constitutions of 158 Greek cities, and references suggest it was written between 325 and 322 BC.  As such, it was not part of the work collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum, and is the only one of Aristotle's writings intended for publication that have survived.  It was lost to history until two leaves of a papyrus codex containing a part of the text were discovered in Egypt in 1879.  A more extensive papyrus text surfaced in Egypt in 1890 and was acquired by the British Museum that same year.  The first translation was by Frederick G. Kenyon in 1891, and the English edition of that translation is used for this reading.  

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