What does solon mean?

Definitions for solon
ˈsoʊ lənsolon

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word solon.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. statesman, solon, national leadernoun

    a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs

Wiktionary

  1. solonnoun

    A wise legislator or lawgiver.

  2. solonnoun

    Any legislator.

  3. Solonnoun

    An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).

  4. Etymology: From Σόλων.

Wikipedia

  1. Solon

    Solon (Greek: Σόλων; c. 630 – c. 560 BC) was an Athenian statesman, constitutional lawmaker and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet Solon is credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. His constitutional reform also succeeded in overturning most laws established by Draco. Modern knowledge of Solon is limited by the fact that his works only survive in fragments and appear to feature interpolations by later authors and by the general paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th century BC. It is recorded that he wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defence of his constitutional reform. Ancient authors such as Philo of Alexandria, Herodotus, and Plutarch are the main sources, but wrote about Solon long after his death. Fourth-century BC orators, such as Aeschines, tended to attribute to Solon all the laws of their own, much later times.

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  1. solon

    A solon is a wise and skillful lawmaker, often a legislator or a member of a council who drafts, legislates, and implements laws. The term was derived from Solon, an Athenian lawmaker and poet from ancient Greece, who was famed for his wisdom and skills in making fair laws. Additionally, Solon is also a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Solonnoun

    a celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically

Wikidata

  1. Solon

    Solon was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. Knowledge of Solon is limited by the lack of documentary and archeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th century BC. He wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defence of his constitutional reforms. His works only survive in fragments. They appear to feature interpolations by later authors and it is possible that fragments have been wrongly attributed to him. Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline. Fourth century orators, such as Aeschines, tended to attribute to Solon all the laws of their own, much later times. Archaeology reveals glimpses of Solon's period in the form of fragmentary inscriptions but little else. For some scholars, our "knowledge" of Solon and his times is largely a fictive construct based on insufficient evidence while others believe a substantial body of real knowledge is still attainable. Solon and his times can appear particularly interesting to students of history as a test of the limits and nature of historical argument.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Solon

    the great Athenian law-giver, and one of the seven sages of Greece (q. v.), born in Athens, was of royal degree, and kinsman of Pisistratus; began life as a trader, and in that capacity acquired a large experience of the world, and he soon turned his attention to political affairs, and showed such wisdom in the direction of them that he was elected archon in 594 B.C., and in that office was invested with full power to ordain whatever he might deem of advantage for the benefit of the State; he accordingly set about the framing of a constitution in which property, not birth, was made the basis of the organisation, and the title to honour and office in the community; he divided the citizens into four classes, gave additional power to the assemblies of the people, and made the archons and official dignitaries responsible to them in the administration of affairs; when he had finished his work, he ordered the laws he had framed to be engraved on tablets and set up in a public place, then took oath of the people to observe them for ten years, after which he left the country and set out on travel; at the end of the ten years he returned, to find things lapsing into the old disorder, and Pisistratus ready to seize the sovereignty of the State, whereupon he withdrew into private life, and died the subject of a tyrant at the age of eighty (640-559 B.C.).

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SOLON

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Solon is ranked #21736 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Solon surname appeared 1,197 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Solon.

    69% or 826 total occurrences were White.
    15.5% or 186 total occurrences were Asian.
    10.1% or 122 total occurrences were Black.
    3.8% or 46 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. loons

  2. olson

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of solon in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of solon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of solon in a Sentence

  1. Laertius Diogenes:

    Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

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