 From an historical-political perspective it is worth noticing the parallel between Protagoras’ thesis and Athenian democracy. Awareness of the importance of nomos was of course widely spread in the Greek world from an early time. It is not a coincidence, therefore, that in the myth the mention of Zeus’ law clearly alludes to some very famous Hesiodic verses (Hesiod is also explicitly mentioned among many other authoritative figures earlier in the dialogue, at 316d–317c):