Born in Athens, Solon was a famous reformer and politician in Athens, ancient Greece. Born into a declining aristocratic family. When he was young, he traveled while doing business, visited many places, visited places of interest and investigated social customs. Solon was a politician, legislator and poet in ancient Athens, and one of the seven sages of ancient Greece.
In 594, Solon served as the consul of Athens city-state, making laws and carrying out reforms, which was called Solon Reform in history. He also made achievements in poetry, mainly praising Athens city-state and law. He was one of the most outstanding politicians in ancient Greece and a versatile poet.
Solon wrote many poems in his travels. For example, evil people tend to get rich, while good people tend to be poor. However, we don't want to exchange their wealth for our morality, because morality exists forever, and wealth changes owners every day. We can easily see his poetic temperament. Although he is engaged in business, he firmly believes that morality is better than wealth.
He also condemned and attacked the greed, tyranny and cruelty of the nobility in his poems. These poems earned him the reputation as the first poet in Athens. Solon's early travel and business career not only enriched his knowledge and experience, but also made him understand the sufferings of the lower class, thus abandoning the pride of the nobility and having a far-reaching impact on his lifelong reform cause.
Solon's reform content:
1. Abolish debt slavery.
2. Abolish the cruel laws enacted by delacour, and only keep the part about murder.
Citizens are divided into four classes according to the amount of property, and their political power is determined according to the property.
4, restore the citizens' assembly as the highest organ of state power, citizens of all walks of life can participate in.
5. Set up a meeting of 400 people to manage the country outside the aristocratic meeting, and all the first three citizens can be selected.
6, the establishment of a citizen jury court, citizens can participate with or without property.