Solon

Solon was an Athenian lawgiver and statesman of the early sixth century BC. His reforms addressed debt, enslavement and political participation, becoming a foundational part of later Athenian accounts of constitutional development.

In non-fiction, Solon is discussed in Plutarch’s The Rise and Fall of Athens. In Plutarch’s The Rise and Fall of Athens, this Plutarch collection gives biographical sources for Athens from legendary Theseus through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades and Lysander.