Solon
629 BC–559 BC
Athenian legislator
writer · poet · philosopher
Born in Classical Athens
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Solon:
- Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
- Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
- Aesop (619 BC–563 BC)
- Thales (624 BC–545 BC)
- Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)
- Sappho (650 BC–569 BC)
- Anaximander (609 BC–545 BC)
- Nebuchadnezzar II (641 BC–561 BC)