CLA230H1 Lecture : Solon and Lycurgus
Document Summary
Egypt and croesus in sardis: solon was archon in athens in 594/3 bc, croesus was king of lydia 560 - 547 bc, amasis was pharaoh in 570 - 526 bc. Solon as founder of athenian democracy: as time goes on, athenians attribute democracy to solon. Sources: herodotus, worshiped lycurgus as a god in sparta. Chronology: xenophon: contemporary of sons of herakles (11th century bc?, herodotus: guardian of king labotas (1025/4-989) Plutarch says that he gets rhetra from delphi: rhetra is word for law, build temple, divide people into tribes, establish a council of 30 (2 kings, 28 elders) Plutarch says that crooked choice" is not a lycurgan invention. Tyrtaeus: mid 7th century bc, herodotus says that they didn"t believe in the apollo myth, but it"s appearance in tyrtaeus and. Story that apollo tells them how to organize in plutarch makes the rhetra authentic archaic evidence. 244-241 bc: textbook mistakenly calls him the iii, he was a reformer.
