Po redaktohet Illyrians (paragraf)

=== Social and political organisation ===
The structure of [[Illyria]]n [[society]] during [[classical antiquity]] was characterised by a conglomeration of numerous tribes and small realms ruled by warrior elites, a situation similar like that in most other societies at that time. Thucidides in the [[History of the Peloponnesian War]] (5th century BC) addresses the social organisation of the Illyrian tribes via a speech he attributes to [[Brasidas]], in which he recounts that the mode of rulership among the Illyrian tribes is that of ''dynasteia''—which Thucidides used in reference to foreign customs—neither democratic, nor oligarchic. Brasidas then goes on to explain that in the ''dynasteia'' the ruler rose to power "by no other means than by superiority in fighting".{{sfn|Matijasić|2011|p=26}} [[Pseudo-Scymnus]] (2nd century BC) in reference to the social organisation of Illyrian tribes in earlier times than the era he lived in makes a distinction between three modes of social organisation. A part of the Illyrians were organized under hereditary kingdoms, a second part was organized under chieftains who were elected but held no hereditary power and some Illyrians were organised in autonomous communities governed by their own internal tribal laws. In these communities social stratification had not yet emerged.{{sfn|Šašel Kos|1993|p=120}}