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Solon's Influence On Greek Society

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In the 6 century Athens was highly intense. The poor citizens against the richer citizens that are land owners .the poorer citizens had to sell themselves to slavery just so they can get out of Debt. So they asked Solon for help because he had the authority to change laws,make laws,pass laws. So he freed all the slaves but didn't empower them. one of Solon own quotes ”For the comment people I have as much power as is sufficient.Neither robbing them of dignity,nor giving them too much;and those who had power, and were marvelously rich,even those I contrived that they suffered no harm. I stood with a mighty shield in front of both classes and allowed neither of them to prevail unjustly. Solons point was to help everybody and let the slaves that sold them self be free and it affected the slaves and did not affect the richer people. …show more content…

Solon contributed to a lot of things that affected the Greek society for example he pass laws that treated the poor

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