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Plutarch, Solon, 1.2

τὴν δὲ μητέρα τοῦ Σόλωνος Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικὸς ἱστορεῖ τῆς Πεισιστράτου μητρὸς ἀνεψιὰν γενέσθαι. καὶ φιλία τὸ πρῶτον ἦν αὐτοῖς πολλὴ μὲν διὰ τὴν συγγένειαν, πολλὴ δὲ διὰ τὴν εὐφυΐαν καὶ ὥραν, ὡς ἔνιοί φασιν, ἐρωτικῶς τὸν Πεισίστρατον ἀσπαζομένου τοῦ Σόλωνος. ὅθεν ὕστερον, ὡς ἔοικεν, εἰς διαφορὰν αὐτῶν ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ καταστάντων οὐδὲν ἤνεγκεν ἡ ἔχθρα σκληρὸν οὐδʼ ἄγριον πάθος, ἀλλὰ παρέμεινεν ἐκεῖνα τὰ δίκαια ταῖς ψυχαῖς, καὶ παρεφύλαξε Solon’s mother, according to Heracleides Ponticus, was a cousin of the mother of Peisistratus. And the two men were at first great friends, largely because of their kinship, and largely because of the youthful beauty of Peisistratus, with whom, as some say, Solon was passionately in love. And this may be the reason why, in later years, when they were at variance about matters of state, their enmity did not bring with it any harsh or savage feelings, but their former amenities lingered in their spirits, and preserved there, smouldering with a lingering flame of Zeus-sent fire, Euripides, Bacchae 8. the grateful memory of their love.

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1. Solon, Fragments, 4.7-4.10, 4.32, 34.8, 36.20-36.21 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
2. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 20e. the wisest of the Seven, once upon a time declared. Now Solon—as indeed he often says himself in his poems—was a relative and very dear friend of our great-grandfather Dropides; Crit. and Dropides told our grandfather Critias as the old man himself, in turn, related to us—that the exploits of this city in olden days, the record of which had perished through time and the destruction of its inhabitants, were great and marvellous, the greatest of all being one which it would be proper
3. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 5.1-5.2, 12.3 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
4. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.10 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
5. Plutarch, Solon, 1.3, 19.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.3. And that Solon was not proof against beauty in a youth, and made not so bold with Love as to confront him like a boxer, hand to hand, may be inferred from his poems. He also wrote a law forbidding a slave to practise gymnastics or have a boy lover, thus putting the matter in the category of honorable and dignified practices, and in a way inciting the worthy to that which he forbade the unworthy. 19.4. This surely proves to the contrary that the council of the Areiopagus was in existence before the archonship and legislation of Solon. For how could men have been condemned in the Areiopagus before the time of Solon, if Solon was the first to give the council of the Areiopagus its jurisdiction? Perhaps, indeed, there is some obscurity in the document, or some omission, and the meaning is that those who had been convicted on charges within the cognizance of those who were Areiopagites and ephetai and prytanes when the law was published, should remain disfranchised while those convicted on all other charges should recover their rights and franchises. This question, however, my reader must decide for himself.
6. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 3.1 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 3.1. BOOK 3: PLATONPlato was the son of Ariston and a citizen of Athens. His mother was Perictione (or Potone), who traced back her descent to Solon. For Solon had a brother, Dropides; he was the father of Critias, who was the father of Callaeschrus, who was the father of Critias, one of the Thirty, as well as of Glaucon, who was the father of Charmides and Perictione. Thus Plato, the son of this Perictione and Ariston, was in the sixth generation from Solon. And Solon traced his descent to Neleus and Poseidon. His father too is said to be in the direct line from Codrus, the son of Melanthus, and, according to Thrasylus, Codrus and Melanthus also trace their descent from Poseidon.
7. Epigraphy, Ig I , 34, 1512
8. Epigraphy, Ig I , 34, 1512
9. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1199

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alkibiades, and the mysteries	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
archons	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
aristotle	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
civil strife	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
demos (damos), limitations placed on	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
demos (damos), tyranny and	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
diallaktes	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
eleusis	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
eunomia (eunomie)	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
eupatridai	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
eupatrids	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
games	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
herakles, in demes	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
jurors, juries, athenian (dikastai)	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
kodros	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
kritias	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
law	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
lawgivers	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
lysis	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
nomothetes, nomothetai	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
oligarchy	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
proxenos/y, of sparta	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
reform, constitutional	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
sokrates, and ancestry	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
solon	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
sparta, and athens	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 684
sparta, spartans	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
stobaios	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
tyranny, tyrants	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58
wealth'	Raaflaub Ober and Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) 58