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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 -
- 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