SOLON (640-560 a.C.) busto in marble. Politician; legislator; moralista and poet; Athenian: he was numbered between the Seven Sages of Greece. Rich trader; become arconte (594-593 a.C.) processed a legislative system that reduced the privileges of the aristocracy by means of a classification of the citizens in 4 classes based on the census; to which they were straight legacies and duties; he promulgated laws on the commerce and on the inheritance; he abolished the slavery for debits and the died power of life and of of the father on the sons; comprised its faculty to sell the daughters.