0530 BC-12-01 00:00:00
As civil war beckoned, Solon, the poet, was selected by Athenians to be the mediator of a dispute between the rich landowners of Athens, and their serfs. So great as the respect that all classes had for his judgment, reason and fairness, that Solon was given carte blanche to rewrite the laws and the constitution of the Athenian state.
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