solon

Plato claims Solon found written records of 'Atlantis' on a visit to Egypt, around 600 BC.

Well, Plato clearly thought it was in the Atlantic Ocean, but the legend came via Solon from an Egyptian priest.

One could argue that Solon the Lawgiver did #1 2600 years ago - abolishing debt slavery, supposedly abolishing most debts, freeing some public lands, coming up with council of Four Hundred.

Plato mentions that the story was heard by Solon in Egypt, and transmitted orally over several generations through the family of Dropides, until it reached Critias( a dialogue speaker in Timaeus and Critias.

In general, there is no silver bullet, and as Solon (creator of the first constitution in the Antiquity) put it, each country will need a custom regime to fit its specific culture and society.

> don't think that was the theory I think Athenian democracy was explicitly built by Solon to relieve gridlock among entrenched, corrupted families.

I wonder, do really programmers believe that they change the world say the way Newton (principia mathematica - first one to apply the scientific method), Einstein (Theory of relativity), Platoo (Creation of first higher education institution on the western world - Athens Academy), Solon (Famous policy maker of the first direct democracy - Athens 600 BC), A.

A fragment of Solon’s poetry describes a situation in which many of the poor “have arrived in foreign lands/sold into slavery, bound in shameful fetters.”" "In 594 BC, Solon was appointed archon of Athens.

Solon's " Count no man happy until he be dead.

This is why,” Solon finally concluded to Croesus, “I cannot answer the question you asked me until I know the manner of your death.

Read Alan Moore's "Watchmen" for a criticize of the republic (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) Pericles(or Solon (don't remember) before Athena became a Republic said the same thing as Eisenower: beware of the richs that want to get a grip on a state and extend their power through their influence and will use military power for expension.

It is said that Solon, the most revered law-giver of Athens, made cutting an olive tree punishable by death.

Particularly with the result that dietary restriction achieved by nutrient dilution rather than fasting didn't extend lifespan (Solon-Biet et al., 2014).

That kind of determinism seems impossible in Los Angeles, but very likely in Solon, IA.