“Solon” and his People: The afterlife of an archaic political personage in late democratic Athens
This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of popular politics reflected in political discourses of fourth-century Athens. It does so by exploring two literary patterns of “Solon” and “the people”: Solon the sage and poet criticizing citizens for moral corruption within the polis, as opposed...
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New Classicists
2020-01-01
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Online Access: | https://www.newclassicists.com/journals?lightbox=dataItem-k9zwp9gt |