SOLON AND "SOLON" THE MYSTERY OF POETRY

In the last five years, there has been a revival of interest in the figure of Solon and his remaining work. As a consequence, there emerged a plethora of criticisms about his personality and work. Solon has been given an outstanding place in the history of thought. His ideas nave been linked to the concept that a progress in time necessarily corresponds to a progress in thought. If the idea of "social memory" is applied to the different records about Solon, different configurations about "Solon" can be mentioned, all of which are sustained by his own poetic fragments. What remains of his poetry and its function could synthesize a paradigm that justifies the name "Solon", essentially, from a literary and poetic view-point.