Solon the Lawgiver

In Our Time: Philosophy by BBC

Apr 20, 202351:20Society & Culture

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was elected archon or chief magistrate of Athens in 594 BC: some see him as the father of Athenian democracy. In the first years of the 6th century BC, the city state of Athens...

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