Concept
Solon
Overview
Athenian legislator
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Solon, leaving his laws, as soon as he had made them, engraven in wood, but destitute of a defender, departed from Athens; whilst Poplicola, remaining, both in and out of office, labored to establish the government Solon, though he actually knew of Pisistratus's ambition, yet was not able to suppress it, but had to yield to usurpation in its infancy; whereas Poplicola utterly subverted and dissolved a potent…
Plutarch, Plutarch
The chapter “COMPARISON OF POPLICOLA WITH SOLON” is titled for Solon; names Solon several times.
The poem is called "Salamis"; it contains a hundred verses, very elegantly written. When it had been sung, his friends commended it, and especially Pisistratus exhorted the citizens to obey his directions; insomuch that they recalled the law, and renewed the war under Solon's conduct. The popular take is, that with Pisistratus he sailed to Colias, and, finding the women, according to the custom of the country there…
Plutarch, The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
The chapter “SOLON” is titled for Solon; states what Solon is.
Such was Solon's legislation with respect to the nine Archons; whereas in early times the Council of Areopagus summoned suitable persons according to its own judgement and appointed them for the year to the several offices. There were four tribes, as before, and four tribe-kings.
Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution
Names Solon several times; the author is tied to Solon in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Solon
- Hesiod
- Heraclitus
- Anacharsis
- Plato
- Plutarch
- Sappho
- Thales of Miletus
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Crates of Thebes
- Epimenides
- Theophrastus
- Women in classical Athens
- Perictione
Related ideas
- Symposium (ancient Greece)
- Athena
- Athens
- Polis
- Classical Athens
- Herodotus
- Iran
- Athenaeus
- Louvre
- Lydia
- Archaic Greece
- Middle Ages
- Mercantilism
- Tyrant
- Megara
- Philo
- Atlantis
- Oligarchy
- Plato
- Propaganda
- Plutarch
- Socrates
- Agora
- Sappho
Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient history.