Two hundred and forty years after Solon Cover Image

Zweihundertundvierzig Jahre nach Solon
Two hundred and forty years after Solon

Author(s): Francis X. Ryan
Subject(s): History
Published by: Studia Humaniora Tartuensia
Keywords: Greek history; Solon; chronology

Summary/Abstract: A passage of Demosthenes clearly implies a much higher date for the death of Solon than those recorded by Plutarch; since the tendency of the passage is reinforced by this higher date, one may readily believe that the figure transmitted to us is the one intended by the orator.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: A.3.1-4
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: German