Fragments
Solon's surviving elegiac and iambic verses defend his own reforms as a fair, deliberately incomplete middle course between the rich and the poor, using poetry itself as a public justification of statesmanship.
Solon's surviving elegiac and iambic verses defend his own reforms as a fair, deliberately incomplete middle course between the rich and the poor, using poetry itself as a public justification of statesmanship.
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