Tracce del pensiero e della prassi istituzionale della Grecia antica nelle vigenti Costituzioni greca ed italiana.

The ideas developed by the ancient Greek population were frequently employed when formulating theories of legal nature in the following centuries. Moreover, they were further analysed in order to determine the value of their contribution to modern legal and political knowledge. However, there still aren’t investigations on the elements of ancient Greeks’ ideas in currently active constitutional documents: that is the aim of this work, where we try to research into the fundamental principles of the Italian Constitution and of the Greek one as well (Σύνταγμα τις Ελλάδας), since the latter could be expected to derive more than others from its cultural background. The great value of this study lies in the research for the very core of the European legal culture, as it’s still thriving in the constitutional traditions common to our States (art. 6 TUE). The research activity is actually contributing greatly to the definition of a common identity, which is still an on-going process, on the one hand facing many challenges with a well-established national approach of cultural nature and, on the other, identifying more efficiently a European common ground from a strictly legal and constitutional standpoint.