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Solon (c. 638–c. 558 BC)

Athenian statesman. As one of the chief magistrates about 594 BC, he carried out the cancellation of all debts from which land or liberty was the security and the revision of the constitution that laid the foundations of Athenian democracy. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

Solon

City in northeastern Ohio, 24 km/15 mi east of Cleveland, of which it is a commuter suburb; population (1990) 18,500. Frozen foods, mining equipment, sporting goods, and clothing are among local products.

It was founded in about 1820 and named after the ancient Greek lawgiver.



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29) Prominent also among the numerous poets and philosophers are the Athenian statesman Solon, one of the Seven Sages,(30) and Sappho, whose verses to her lover Phaon - "surviving," says Panormita, "in a Latin translation"(31) - are so wanton yet so elegant that they could restore to manly vigor those two proverbial elders Nestor and Priam.
Panormita's reply to his critics: the 'Hermaphroditus' and the ... by O'Connor, Eugene / Renaissance Quarterly
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