There is also a frieze by Adolph Weinman depicting the "great lawgivers of history", including Hammurabi, on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court building.
And Napoleon was not ony a great general and great writer but a great lawgiver also, and reformer.
It is my belief that our salvation lies in following the golden rules of conduct set for us by our great lawgiver, the Prophet of Islam.
Homer mentions Minos and his just rule in Crete: he was later remembered as one of the great lawgivers in Hades.
According to classical accounts, the Spartan constitution was the product of a great lawgiver, Lycurgus.
Justinian," he said, "was a great conqueror, a great lawgiver, a great diplomat, and a great builder.
You call him a brute, but he was not considered exceptionally brutal at the time, and he is remembered also as a great lawgiver.
In my book It's All Greek To Me, I remarked upon the extraordinary fact that Solon, Athens's early and great lawgiver and economic reformer, was also a poet.
The end of the great lawgiver especially was surrounded with legends.
Shamshi-Adad, one of the most important figures in Mesopotamian history, was a contemporary of Hammurabi, the great lawgiver and king of Babylon to the south.