To: Solon who wrote (5277 ) 5/19/2010 7:34:06 AM From: Brumar89 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to Solon a fictive construct:they wrote about Solon hundreds of years after his death — and this was at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline (see for example Anecdotes). Fourth century orators, such as Aeschines, tended to attribute to Solon all the laws of their own, much later times.[8] 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 ....IOW Solon was the Obama of his day. thumbs.dreamstime.com And of course, we note Solone has picked the pedarast Solon as his namesake. Just like Ingersoll "The Magnificant", Solon "liked young men": laws that were intended to promote and safeguard the institution of pederasty and to control abuses against freeborn boys. In particular, the orator Aeschines cites laws excluding slaves from wrestling halls and forbidding them to enter pederastic relationships with the sons of citizens.[139] personal involvement. According to some ancient authors Solon had taken the future tyrant Peisistratus as his eromenos. Aristotle, writing around 330BC, attempted to refute that belief, claiming that "those are manifestly talking nonsense who pretend that Solon was the lover of Peisistratus, for their ages do not admit of it," as Solon was about thirty years older than Peisistratus.[144] Nevertheless the tradition persisted. Four centuries later Plutarch ignored Aristotle's skepticism[145] and reported anecdotes such as the following:
