![[Solon.jpg|300]] ## Links - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon) - [Encyclopaedia Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solon) ## Overview - Lived: c. 630 BC – c. 560 BC (aged approx 70) - Statesman, Lawmaker and poet. - His reforms didn't catch on at the time but he laid the foundations for the worlds first democracy, [Athenian democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy). - Little of his actual work survives. What we have mostly comes from Herodotus and Plutarch. - Known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth) - "He instituted a census of annual income." - He immediately followed Draco.