Solon

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  • 594 BCE

    Solon appointed as eponymous archon

    written about by:
    - Herodotus, Histories 1.29-33, alive 484-425BC - hundred years after Solon
    - Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 5-19, alive 328-325 BC, would have used Herodotus as source
    - Plutarch, Life of Solon 14-26, 120 AD
  • Period: 594 BCE to 584 BCE

    Solon's reforms - Seisachtheia

    • removed all debt
    • abolished Draco's laws
    • forbade export of anything except olive oil
    • divided population into 4 classes based on wealth: Pentacosiomedimni, Knights, Zeugitae and Thetes
    • appointed Council of 400
    • anyone who was not part of a political party was no longer a citizen
    • increased standards of weights and measures of currency

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