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that Solon ever knew
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was a dead Athenian that nobody ever heard of.
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Why? What does this say?
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Right, we see in this passage something
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that reveals so much about what the Greek values were
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and you'll see how closely they were tied up
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with the polis and the primacy of the polis in their lives.
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Well, why are things good? Well, his city,
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his polis was going well.
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A man who is living in a polis not doing well,
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how can he be happy? There's just no way.
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Secondly, he had sons. Now, this has to do with the