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Solon

Also known as Solon of Athens

Solon (; ;  BC) was an archaic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, political philosopher, and poet. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece and is credited with laying the foundations for Athenian democracy. Solon's efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline resulted in his constitutional reform overturning most of Draco's laws.

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Solon was a male human from Classical Athens, where he was born and held citizenship. He served as an eponymous archon and belonged to the Eupatridae social classification. His occupations included legislator, poet, writer, and philosopher. He wrote in Ancient Greek and his name in his native language was Σόλων ο Αθηναίος.

He died in either Cyprus or Classical Athens between 558 BCE and 560 BCE. His work period spanned from 700 BCE to 600 BCE. He had a relative named Pisistratus. His works are held in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Parallel Lives, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1884
Died: 1962
Works: 29

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Moss
Active from: 1964-07-23

Discography

Rich and Royal2023

Official site

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 11,933
Total plays: 58,270

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“ἔργμασιν ἐν μεγάλοις πᾶσιν ἁδεῖν χαλεπόν.”
“εἰ δὲ πεπόνθατε λυγρὰ δι᾿ ὑμετέρην κακότητα,  μὴ θεοῖσιν τούτων μοῖραν ἐπαμφέρετε·αὐτοὶ γὰρ τούτους ηὐξήσατε ῥύματα δόντες,  καὶ διὰ ταῦτα κακὴν ἔσχετε δουλοσύνην.”
“χρήματα δ᾿ ἱμείρω μὲν ἔχειν, ἀδίκως δὲ πεπᾶσθαι  οὐκ ἐθέλω· πάντως ὕστερον ἦλθε δίκη.”
“πολλοὶ γὰρ πλουτέουσι κακοί, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ πένονται·  ἀλλ᾿ ἡμεῖς τούτοις οὐ διαμειψόμεθατῆς ἀρετῆς τὸν πλοῦτον, ἐπεὶ τὸ μὲν ἔμπεδον αἰεί,  χρήματα δ᾿ ἀνθρώπων ἄλλοτε ἄλλος ἔχει.”
“γηράσκω δ᾿ αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος.”
“φύλασσε τρόπου καλοκαγαθίαν ὅρκου πιστοτέραν.”

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Key facts

Person.name: Solon
Person.image: Ignoto, c.d. solone, replica del 90 dc ca da orig. greco del 110 ac. ca, 6143.JPG
Person.caption: Bust of Solon, copy from a Greek original () from the Farnese Collection, now at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Person.native_name: Σόλων
Person.native_name_lang: grc
Person.birth_date: BC
Person.birth_place: Athens
Person.death_date: BC (aged approximately 70)
Person.death_place: Cyprus
Person.occupation: Statesman, lawmaker, poet

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

8 objects attributed to Solon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Sententiosa Vetvstissimorvm Gnomicorvm Qvorvndam Poetarvm Opera. 2, Solonis Fragmenta Poetica

Gnomes

Brevis enarratio historiae episcopi Hattonis Moguntinensis a muribus ... : A[nn]o 930 consumpti. Item colloquium Solonis et Croesi

Poetarum Graecorum Sylloge. 3. Poetae Graeci gnomici

Carminum Quae Supersunt Praemissa Commentatione De Solone Poeta Disposuit Emendavit Atque Annotationibus Instruxit Nicolaus Bachius

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Encyclopedic overview

28 sections

Contents

Biography
Early life and ancestry
Defeat of Megara
Archonship
Travels
Death and legacy
Historical rivalries
Economic and ideological
Regional
Clan
Solon's reforms
Constitutional
Classes
Economic
Coinage
Foreign trade
Moral
{{lang|grc-Latn|Seisachtheia}}
Sexual
Poems
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Collections of Solon's surviving verses
Collections of Solon's laws
Further reading
External links

Solon's reforms included debt relief later known and celebrated among Athenians as the (shaking off of burdens). He is described by Aristotle in the Athenian Constitution as "the first people's champion". Demosthenes credited Solon's reforms with starting a golden age.

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Solon