Solon came to power in Athens in order to make peace between warring factions: True or False?

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This is a paragraph from Encyclopedia Brittancica and then one from an online essay, If you consider disputes in social class and possible results of tryanny like factions, im almost positive its True


The early 6th century was a troubled time for the Athenians in other ways as well. Society was dominated by an aristocracy of birth, the eupatridae, who owned the best land, monopolized the government, and were themselves split into rival factions. The poorer farmers were easily driven into debt by them and when unable to pay were reduced to the condition of serfs on their own land and, in extreme cases, sold into slavery. The intermediate classes of middling farmers, craftsmen, and merchants resented their exclusion from the government. These social, economic, and political evils might well have culminated in a revolution and subsequent tyranny (dictatorship), as they had in other Greek states, had it not been for SOLON, to whom Athenians of all classes turned in the hope of a generally satisfactory solution of their problems. Because he believed in moderation and in an ordered society in which each class had its proper place and function, his solution was not revolution but reform.








Athens is one of the many poleis鈥檚 that make up Greece. In the years leading up to the rule of SOLON there was much turmoil in many of the neighbouring poleis. Many had become a tyranny or a state with an elected dictator like in Mytinene with Aisynetes. Athens was in a situation of stasis, it was close to civil. The classes in which people were divided were not fixed two side almost formed with the rich against the poor these things added to the attempted tyranny by Cylon in 632 BC led to the nobles becoming very desperate and many thought that Solon was there best bet in order to stop Athens being torn apart by war.Solon came to power in Athens in order to make peace between warring factions: True or False?
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