Solon person

“From Solon, Cleisthenes, and Pericles in Greece to the Emperor Kangxi in Qing China, to Teddy Roosevelt in early twentieth-century America, it was the privileged few who stepped in and were accepted by peoples who seemed content to be led a…”

“An aristocrat named Solon was asked to draw up laws that would ease the plight of the poor without undercutting the elites too much.…”