Solon of Athens - The Legendary Lawmaker who Paved the Way for Democracy
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- In the time of Archaic Greece, Solon of Athens rose to prominence through warfare and politics to lay the foundations of Athenian Democracy.
Who was this man, and what made him great?
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:32 Early Life & Travels
01:26 Solon returns to Athens
01:51 Solon involves himself in Athens' War with Megara
02:50 Solon defeats Megara as General
03:25 Athens turns to Solon in Crisis
04:11 Solon becomes Eponymous Archon
04:50 Solon brings Unprecedented Equality
05:09 Solon leaves Athens for 10 Years
06:00 Solon Inspires Croesus in Lydia
07:30 Death & Legacy
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Sources Used
Ancient Texts:
Pseudo-Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution (Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία)
Plutarch - Life of Solon (Βίοι Παράλληλοι: Σόλων)
Herodotus - The History (Ἱστορίαι )
Diogenes Laërtius - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων / Vitae Philosophorum)
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library (Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική)
Credits
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Music:
'Descent' by Houses of Heaven.
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I'm 55yrs been a lover of history all my Life, I've never heard of Solon until this Day.
Solon....the Father of Democracy.
I thought draco was the father of democracy?
While this is technically true, Draco was hardly remembered for being a particularly nice ruler - our term 'draconic laws' don't usually refer to dragons or snakes, but actually to him... Life back then was pretty unforgiving but I'd say he still dealt with things unusually harshly, and when Solon came along to fix the mess he tended to do things a bit more even-handedly (though perhaps not perfectly)
Democracy never lasts long as it breaks out into factions. The tyrant Pisistratus seized power.
Solon brought the story of the atlanteans back from Egypt. It's my belief that Hermes/Thoth was an atlantean missionary
Subed , watched one of your videos "Marcus Agrippa" and decided to watch from the begining !
My history teacher freshman year of high school said “Solon said so long to debt slavery” and I’ve remembered that for so long
Gulliver in Lilliput
Loved this so much - now I need to find those fragments of Solon's writings. "He praised virtue over riches." His biography reminds me a little (no, not a precise parallel) to Hesse's Siddartha story. A man searching for meaning in life, having gone thru many life phases, and who had noble motivations. Thank you for this sublime presentation, ethereal music included.
I highly recommend you reading book one of Herodotus’ Histories, if you havnt already
Man, you deserve wayyyy more subs, I hope you get a glow up, im totally subbing
Solon Solon Solon
This was an excellent video. It deserves way more views. Thank you for producing something that actually has value rather than the same old classicist drivel.
Appreciate it, Classics could do with a new coat!
It was great for me too thank you, not boring at all 🙏🌞💛✨
Appreciate all the positive feedback :)
@@AntiquityforAll Keep it up 😉🙏🌹✨
@@soulfire. appreciated!
Zeus was a Pelasgian (ancestors of Albanians), not a Helen. Iliad and Odyssey were oral poems of Pelasgians, which later were written in Illyric/ Albanian. The oracle of Zeus, Dodona of Epirus, was the Temple of Pelasgians. After Iliad the language of Gods was Gheg, North Albanian Dialect. (Herodotus)
After Science Magazine 2023, the Albanian Language is older than 8000 years, much older than the Greek and Armenian languages.
Zacharias Papantoniou (Greek: Ζαχαρίας Παπαντωνίου) was a Greek writer. He was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Many of the works of Zacharias Papantoniou, unfortunately, are censored because they tell the truth on Greek history. In that censored group is also the book, ''The King Otto''. Below we state a fragment from this book: ''The young Prince for first time come in Athens on January 25, 1833, he hardly heard anyone speak in Greek and so he asked: "Where are the Greeks in Athens?" His court looked at each other and answered: "There are no Greeks, but do not be troubled because this Albanian population will always be faithful to your monarchy."
Triantafyllidis later wrote, with some exaggeration, that the introduction of Demotic Greek into schools in 1917 was the first official recognition of the mother tongue ever made. Now that Greece had succeeded in winning Macedonia and other regions, disputed until that moment, Venizelos no longer considered it dangerous to introduce demotic Greek into the schools; indeed, one of the main reasons why the triumvirate [Triantafyllidis, Delmouzos, Glinos - the three leaders of the Educational Association] was appointed was the problem of integrating the non-Greek speaking populations of Greek Macedonia.
Venizelos had already argued in Parliament, in 1914, that the populations of the New Lands (areas included within Greece as a result of the Balkan wars), only by being educated in the spoken language, could learn Greek. Triantafyllidis noticed that even the Albanian-speaking populations of Attica, at the gates of Athens, were not linguistically Hellenized.
Title: Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976
Author: Peter Mackridge
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2010
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Yes!!! Thank you!!!! 1Nation4Life
Draco, i call upon thee, i heard a saying in my travels of 48yrs here in this era, He whom giveth can taketh away yes? So since Draro you were one of our early lawgivers and also maybe democrasy, what do you think we take them both away?
Whom devised money as this would have been a formulation of whom with alchemy maybe we take that away to.
Longer! Videos too short. More more
Volume is pretty low
Appreciate the feedback! We realised this after publishing and have tried to fix in later videos - feel free to check them out and let us know if it needs more work.
which are the souces on him?
you could publish the sources you have to prepare the videos. im studing to be history teacher. Your channel is quite a great job
Hey Gigio! Thanks for the support. This was my first ever video so I didn't think to add the sources I used on this one (but you can find a thorough list of my sources on later vids!) However I've now added them in which you can find in the description, or here just for you:
Pseudo-Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution (Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία)
Plutarch - Life of Solon (Βίοι Παράλληλοι: Σόλων)
Herodotus - The History (Ἱστορίαι )
Diogenes Laërtius - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι τῶν ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ εὐδοκιμησάντων / Vitae Philosophorum)
Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library (Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική)
Dang with the music smh
Why is he unpopular to the rich?
when Solon forgave the old and irrelevant debts the people who were rich either owned those debts or were the children and inherited a right to collect their parents owed debts.
In the lead up to these times the rich families and old aristocracy often owned the plentiful farms that were vital to inland food supply, and through all the many perks this afforded them they would accrue generational debts, debts over a persons life/freedom, and many other scenarios in landownership.
In this scenario a large number of people feel that they are directly entitled to these debts, regardless of how inane the circumstance or how the debts came to be, or if the debts even was paid out of their own pocket, or even how literally impossibly high a debt could be calculated to be, therefore nearly rendering the debter at the debt owners will. These people ignored the fact that their moneygrubbing was literally tearing society apart because they wanted to maximize profits or power over their local province.
سولون
فيلسوف ومشترع وسياسي اغريقي مات حوالي سنة ٥٥٨ قبل المسيح عليه السلام
رجل عظيم حقا !
Lol of course this isn’t King Solomon 🤯
And sooooo boring
Very sorry to hear that! Will be putting special effort into making future vids a little more exciting ;)
@@AntiquityforAll YOur vid was good man, just a troll. Did she even watch it?
Says the nonthinker.