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This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon’s poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The connection between Solon’s alleged roles as poet and as politician is fundamentally questioned. Part two offers a reassessment of Solon’s laws based on a revision of the textual tradition and recent views on early Greek lawgiving. In part three, fresh scrutiny of the archeological and written evidence of archaic Greece results in new perspectives on the agricultural crisis and Solon’s role in the social and political developments of sixth-century Athens. Originally published in hardcover

Politics and literature --- Greek literature --- History and criticism --- Solon, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life --- Politics and government --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Solone, --- Aḟiny (Greece) --- Atene (Greece) --- Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) --- Ateny (Greece) --- Athen (Greece) --- Athēna (Greece) --- Athēnai (Greece) --- Athènes (Greece) --- Athinai (Greece) --- Athīnā (Greece) --- Greek poetry --- Law, Greek --- Politique et littérature --- Poésie grecque --- Droit grec --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Histoire et critique --- Congresses. --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Vie intellectuelle --- Politique et gouvernement --- Solon --- Greece --- Αθήνα (Greece) --- Solon Atheniensis --- Solon van Athene --- Soloon --- Soloon van Athene --- Greek literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Politics and government. --- Politics and literature. --- Cultural life --- Culture --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- Greece. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Politics and literature - Greece --- Greek literature - History and criticism --- Solon, - ca. 630-ca. 560 B.C. --- Solon, - ca. 630-ca. 560 B.C. - Criticism and interpretation --- Athens (Greece) - Intellectual life --- Athens (Greece) - Politics and government

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A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish, starting with the Sibylline books and the Annales Maximi of the Roman priests and culminating in the canonical gospels of the Christians. It is the aim of this volume to modify this view or, at least, to challenge it. Surveying the variety of ways in which different types of texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient Greek and Roman religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were in use for both Greek and Roman state and private religions.

Religious literature --- Communication --- Religious aspects --- Greece --- Rome --- Religion --- Littérature religieuse --- Aspect religieux --- Grèce --- Literature --- Bible as literature --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Griechenland --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Religious literature - Congresses --- Communication - Religious aspects - Congresses --- Greece - Religion - Congresses --- Rome - Religion - Congresses