Solon

(640 BC c.-561 BC c.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Solon LBT ID: Solon561 VIAF ID: 14908273 LOC ID: n79110932	B/BAP: -0640 DIED: -0561
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Athenian lawgiver who sought to protect the rights of peasants in Attica and opened the Assembly to all freemen.
REFERENCES TO Solon: Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE ABSOLVERS. Verse 2: p. 23a p. 23a “Last Days of Lord Byron” in The Times (19 May 1825) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch VIII. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 10 Maurice, Frederick Denison, 1805-1872, “Sketches of Contemporary Authors. Sir Walter Scott” in The Athenaeum 1 (11 March 1828) 217-19 Found 1: ¶ [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. III. 1794-95 Found 1: ¶ 8 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 37 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 4 Found 1: ¶ 18