Solon | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:14 1 Biography
00:06:27 2 Background to Solon's reforms
00:13:14 3 Solon's reforms
00:15:21 3.1 Constitutional reform
00:19:53 3.2 Economic reform
00:24:41 3.3 Moral reform
00:29:23 3.4 Aftermath of Solon's reforms
00:30:53 4 Poetry
00:34:12 5 Solon and Athenian sexuality
00:38:39 6 See also



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Solon (Greek: Σόλων Sólōn [só.lɔːn]; c.  630 – c.  560 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short-term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. He wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defence of his constitutional reforms.
Modern knowledge of Solon is limited by the fact that his works only survive in fragments and appear to feature interpolations by later authors and by the general paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th century BC. Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main sources, but wrote about Solon long after his death. 4th-century orators, such as Aeschines, tended to attribute to Solon all the laws of their own, much later times.