Today's installment concludes Solon's Early Greek Legislation,our selection from History of Greece by George Grote published in 1846 For works

It is much to be regretted that we have no information respecting events in Attica immediately after the Solonian laws and constitution, which were

But though the acceptance of the laws was accomplished without difficulty, it was not found so easy either for the people to understand and obey, or

. . . the existing government is ranked merely as one of the contending parties. The virtuous citizen is enjoined, not to come forward in its support,

Among the various laws of Solon, there are few which have attracted more notice than that which pronounces the man who in a sedition stood aloof, and

The general tone of Grecian sentiment recognized no occupations as perfectly worthy of a free citizen except arms, agriculture, and athletic and

The laws of Solon were inscribed on wooden rollers and triangular tablets . . . and preserved first in the Acropolis, subsequently in the