Codification of law in the Archaic period is due on the one hand to the use of writing, and on the other to the ever-increasing pressure of the demand for isonomy. The traditions about the first lawgivers are lost in the mists of legend. Even after the Archaic period, the Athenian legislature bears the stamp of Dracon and Solon. It is to the latter that the formation of a new juridical body and the sharing out of duties between the various law courts are due. Many of his reforms, which were to do both with public and with private law, continued in force in the Classical period as well.