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Solon The Thinker

Solon The Thinker

John David Lewis on his book Solon The Thinker. In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon’s polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual [...]

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