The Megarian Decree

The Megarian decree is not extant, and even the exact number of decrees is uncertain. Six sources from antiquity provide us with knowledge of the decree. Three of them, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and Plutarch, provide the bulk of that knowledge, while three more, Andocides, Aristodemus, and Diodorus Siculus provide short references. The purpose of this chapter is to review the sources available to us and examine any information they provide about the impact of the Megarian decree, as well as the conclusions modern scholarship has arrived at concerning the decree.
Thucydides, a contemporary of the Peloponnesian War, provides our first details about the Megarian decree. The historian references the decree several times throughout the first book