Solon was a sort of Athenian Franklin D. Roosevelt... He was an aristocratic reformer who understood instinctively that the aristocracy's monopoly on power had to be loosened and some power given to the lesser orders if social peace was to be shored up.

— Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

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