Athenian Statesman, Constitutional Lawmaker and Founder, Poet, Remembered particularly for his Efforts to Legislate Against Political, Economic and Moral Decline in Archaic Athens

: 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. (From: Wikipedia.org.)

"Athenian Constitution," by Aristotle, translated by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon.