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Solon's verses are mainly significant for historical rather than aesthetic reasons, as a personal record of his reforms and attitudes.

However, poetry is not an ideal genre for communicating facts and very little detailed information can be derived from the surviving fragments.

According to Solon the poet, Solon the reformer was a voice for political moderation in Athens at a time when his fellow citizens were increasingly polarized by social and economic differences: