The book examines a number of issues related to the formation of legislation and law in archaic Athens, with the creation in one of the largest ancient Greek policies of the first sets of written laws (VII-VI centuries BC). The names of the creators of these arches - Dragon and Solon - are known to many, but the study of their activities always turns out to be fraught with significant difficulties. The reason for this is the unsatisfactory state of the sources, and the current degree of study of the general historical context of such an early era of the development of the ancient world. The author's greatest attention is drawn to the religious aspect of early legislation, which was given particularly little attention in previous historiography.