Writing Solon

This paper concerns the problem of the authorship of Solon’s transmitted poems. Within an oral tradition many elegies and iambus circulated under the ‘authorial’ and authoritative name of Solon in Attic symposia until the emergence of a definitive writing redaction. We argue that the first transcription of Solon’s poems was made by aristocratic circles in the first half of the fifth century and we offer some hypotheses also about the redactor of a Solonian syllogê which was the base text for the circulation of Solon’s work until the Hellenistic period.

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