Solon of Athens (638 BC - 558 BC) was a statesman, lawmaker, poet and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. He was the first of the Athenian poets whose work has survived to the present day. He wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defence of his constitutional reforms. They are mainly significant for historical rather than aesthetic reasons, as a personal record of his reforms and attitudes. Engraving from 'The History of Philosophy' by Thomas Stanley, circa 1655 to 1661. Woodcut (cropped and cleaned) from Nuremberg Chronicle, 15th century. | |
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