Laws of Solon

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 11 · ch. 20

   Cited as the earliest source of the legal distinction between a thief taken by day and by night.

   The old law of Solon, to which Demosthenes, in his speech against Timocrates, appeals, agrees with it.

2. On the Mysteries Andocides 1 authority 1 citation · 4 passages

   on the mysteries 4 passages anchored here

   The speaker treats Solon's laws as authoritative legal sources.

   The Prytanes said that they would bring him before the Council, and told him to give Cephisius and myself notice to attend at the Eleusinium, as it was there that the Council was to sit in conformity with a law of Solon’s, which lays down that a sitting shall be held in the Eleusinium on the day after the Mysteries.

3. Constitution of the Athenians Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here

   Solon's laws are explicitly invoked as a legal-textual authority repealed and referenced for comparison

   Cleitophon proposed the rest just as Pythodorus said, but added that the chosen men should also search out the ancestral laws which Cleisthenes laid down when he established the democracy, so that, hearing these too, they might decide what was best, on the ground that the constitution of Cleisthenes was not democratic but akin to that of Solon.

4. The Erotic Essay Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation

   the erotic essay

   The passage explicitly cites Solon's laws as a continuing authority still used by most Greeks, invoking them as evidence of his wisdom.

   He was not disqualified for the other honors but left behind him a memorial of his courage in the trophy of victory over the Megarians, of his astuteness in the recovery of Salamis, and of general sagacity in the laws which the majority of the Greeks continue using to this day.

5. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages

   oration 80 3 passages anchored here

   Solon's laws are explicitly named and discussed as an authority followed by the Athenians, though critically qualified as merely pleasing rather than truly good.

   And the curse which the Athenians laid down concerning the laws of Solon, against those who should attempt to abolish them, you do not know to be more sovereign in the case of his laws—for it is wholly necessary that the ordinance which holds the universe together should be backed by a curse—except that it does not, as there, pursue the children and the line of those who do wrong, but each man bec …

6. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 10

   Solon's laws are explicitly cited as the source empowering Athenian testation, with a stated limitation.

   Thus, when Athenian citizens were empowered for the first time by the Laws of Solon to execute Testaments, they were forbidden to disinherit their direct male descendants.

7. Symposium Plato 1 authority 1 citation

   symposium

   Diotima names Solon directly as an authoritative lawgiver exemplar

   while Solon is highly esteemed among you for begetting his laws;

8. Economics Xenophon 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   chapter 14 2 passages anchored here

   Solon is explicitly named as a lawgiver whose enactments support the discipline of servants.

   Nevertheless I guide the servants into the path of justice with the aid of maxims drawn from the laws of Draco and Solon.

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