Soloniana Constitution

Nevertheless he has located it to the tradition around year 559/8, shortly after the beginning of the tyranny of Pisstrato He adds himself to us, that his father decimated his fortune in generosity acts. For that reason Soln began like international retailer. Its poetic abilities they did that outside considered one of the Seven wise people of Greece. In the middle of 590 years a.C. worked to incite the renewal of the conflict with Cirra on Salamina. In 594 a.C. was named arconte of the tica, in order to control the rampante civil disorder in that city, product of the laws emitted by Dracn and the slavery of many farmers by debts. Soln abolished the majority of these laws (from where the adjective of &quot is derived; draconianas"), that they were excessively bloodthirsty with the misdemeanors and had brought about complaints in the population, except the referring ones to the homicide.

It introduced a set of regulations, seisachtheia, that were very useful to improve the conditions in property subjects and earth possession. Their regulations were such successful that entrusted the task to him of rewriting the constitution. The result was called the Soloniana Constitution later. One exempted the citizens of direct taxes. It introduced the Heliaia (judgment by jury). The Council of Four hundred (or Bul) and the Arepago were established like the main consultative and administrative bodies. It annulled all the debts that weighed on the humble farmers and decreed that all the slaves by debts were released; remodel the calendar, and regulated the weights and measures. Their laws were written in wood cylinders special (kyrbeis) and put in the Acropolis. The Escita had great friendship with Anacarsis, that made fun of of Soln by the faith that it had in the written laws to maintain to ray the greed and injustices of his fellow citizens One comments, that decided to finish to us with the rights of chaste, adapting the rights and duties of the citizens to his respective rents, coming to the division of the population in four classes.