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Solon's reforms occurred in the context of democratic politics at Athens that required clearer distinctions between " free " and " slave "; as a perverse consequence, chattel slavery increased.
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Solon's and reforms
As further evidence accumulates, and as historians continue to debate the issues, Solon's motivations and the intentions behind his reforms will continue to attract speculation.
Generally, Solon's reforms appear to have been constitutional, economic and moral in their scope.
Previous to Solon's reforms, the Athenian state was administered by nine archons appointed or elected annually by the Areopagus on the basis of noble birth and wealth.
Depending on how we interpret the historical facts known to us, Solon's constitutional reforms were either a radical anticipation of democratic government, or they merely provided a plutocratic flavour to a stubbornly aristocratic regime, or else the truth lies somewhere between these two extremes.
Solon's economic reforms need to be understood in the context of the primitive, subsistence economy that prevailed both before and after his time.
Solon's reforms can thus be seen to have taken place at a crucial period of economic transition, when a subsistence rural economy increasingly required the support of a nascent commercial sector.
However, recent numismatic studies now lead to the conclusion that Athens probably had no coinage until around 560 BC, well after Solon's reforms.
Solon's economic reforms succeeded in stimulating foreign trade.
The real motives behind Solon's economic reforms are therefore as questionable as his real motives for constitutional reform.
Solon's verses are mainly significant for historical rather than aesthetic reasons, as a personal record of his reforms and attitudes.
Under Solon's reforms, all debts were abolished and all debt-slaves were freed.
About a century later, Solon's reforms were further enhanced for even more direct involement of regular citizens by Cleisthenes.
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Coins such as this might have made their way to Athens in Solon's time but it is unlikely that Athens had its own coinage at this period.
Economic crises in Athens around 600 BC had resulted in so many Athenians sold into slavery that Solon enacted the seisachtheia which banned the practice of debt bondage and returned Athenians to their land as free men, at least according to Solon's own claims.
Back at the castle, Condo is angered by Solon's offer to sacrifice him, and threatens to kill Solon.
Solon's and Athens
Head of a kouros from Athens, dated to around Solon's time.
The social and political upheavals that characterised Athens in Solon's time have been variously interpreted by historians from ancient times to the present day.
Two contemporary historians have identified three distinct historical accounts of Solon's Athens, emphasizing quite different rivalries: economic and ideological rivalry, regional rivalry and rivalry between aristocratic clans.
The historical account of Solon's Athens has evolved over many centuries into a set of contradictory stories or a complex story that might be interpreted in a variety of ways.
Solon's father Execestides could trace his ancestry back to Codrus, the last King of Athens.
Ironically, the local high school's mascot is the Spartans ; Sparta was famously an enemy of Solon's home, Athens.
Critias proceeds to tell the story of Solon's journey to Egypt where he hears the story of Atlantis, and how Athens used to be an ideal state that subsequently waged war against Atlantis ( 25a ).
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This sort of account emerges from Solon's poems ( e. g. see below Solon the reformer and poet ), in which he casts himself in the role of a noble mediator between two intemperate and unruly factions.
Here translated by the English poet John Dryden, Solon's words define a ' moral high ground ' where differences between rich and poor can be reconciled or maybe just ignored.
In Solon's discussion of Croesus in Herodotus, for instance, the link between being blessed and being wealthy is assumed.
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It is most usual to date Athenian democracy from Cleisthenes, since Solon's constitution fell and was replaced by the tyranny of Peisistratus, whereas Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes ' constitution relatively peacefully.
( The property classes of Solon's constitution remained on the books, but they fell into disuse.
Archaeology reveals glimpses of Solon's period in the form of fragmentary inscriptions but little else.
During Solon's time, many Greek city-states had seen the emergence of tyrants, opportunistic noblemen who had grabbed power on behalf of sectional interests.
" The ancient historical account here demonstrates a more sophisticated understanding of political process-what were two sides in Solon's account have now become three parties, each with a regional base and a constitutional platform.
Attika in Solon's time seemed to be moving towards a similarly ugly solution with many citizens in danger of being reduced to the status of helots.
Solon's laws were inscribed on large wooden slabs or cylinders attached to a series of axles that stood upright in the Prytaneum.
Fragments of the axones were still visible in Plutarch's time but today the only records we have of Solon's laws are fragmentary quotes and comments in literary sources such as those written by Plutarch himself.
Modern scholars doubt the reliability of these sources and our knowledge of Solon's legislation is therefore actually very limited in its details.
The Areopagus, as viewed from the Acropolis, is a monolith where Athenian aristocrats decided important matters of state during Solon's time.
reforms and occurred
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Other tentative reforms were also enacted: taxes were lowered, there were attempts to improve the image of the Ottoman state, and the first instances of private investment and entrepreneurship occurred.
Economic, social, and democratic reforms have occurred in recent years.
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This was similar to the agrarian reforms in Romania which occurred the previous century, in which the landlords had to give up two-thirds of their land, which was then handed over to the peasants.
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