Solon the Lawgiver (In Our Time)
594 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Solon, who was elected archon or chief magistrate of Athens in 594 BC: some see him as the father of Athenian democracy. In the first years of the 6th century BC, the city state of Athens was in crisis. The lower orders of society were ravaged by debt, to the point where some were being forced into slavery. An oppressive law c
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Around 594 BCE
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (586 BCE)
- Athenian democracy founded (508 BCE)