Performing the Isolated Lawgiver: Solon’s Poetics and Politics Reconsidered
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Solon the Athenian lawgiver and statesman is also the first Athenian poet to whom a body of poetry is attributed, significant fragments of which have survived. These poems have triggered in recent years increasing scholarly interest of re-reading and re-assessment, which attempts to strike a more nuanced balance between Solon the statesman and Solon the poet. Pursuing along these lines, this paper examines the self-representation of the poet in its performance context and looks at the ways in which it is configured and thereby targets a more complementary relation between Solon’s poetics and politics. Starting from 5th century BC Solon was remembered by the Greeks as one of the Seven Sages and a performer of wisdom. Since sophia is crucial to Solon’s self-representation as a poet, this early reception of Solon as a sophos is ensured by his poetry, where a poet-lawgiver figure functions as the concrete embodiment of Solonian sophia. Holding onto this classical image of Solon as a representative sophos of the archaic period, I seek to explain the use made of Solon’s persona that emerges from the Solonian corpus of poetry. I argue that the primary function of the paradigmatic persona that is configured in the Solonian corpus is not autobiographical commentary on or self-defense of what the historical Solon did as lawgiver and statesman, but rather for any performer of the poetry in Solon’s absence, historical or metaphorical, to reenact a Solonian sophos as an isolated lawgiver standing in opposition to the tyrant.
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Solon the Athenian lawgiver and statesman is also the first Athenian poet to whom a body of poetry is attributed, significant fragments of which have survived. These poems have triggered in recent years increasing scholarly interest of re-reading and re-assessment, which attempts to strike a more nuanced balance between Solon the statesman and Solon the poet. Pursuing along these lines, this paper examines the self-representation of the poet in its performance context and looks at the ways in which it is configured and thereby targets a more complementary relation between Solon’s poetics and politics. Starting from 5th century BC Solon was remembered by the Greeks as one of the Seven Sages and a performer of wisdom. Since sophia is crucial to Solon’s self-representation as a poet, this early reception of Solon as a sophos is ensured by his poetry, where a poet-lawgiver figure functions as the concrete embodiment of Solonian sophia. Holding onto this classical image of Solon as a representative sophos of the archaic period, I seek to explain the use made of Solon’s persona that emerges from the Solonian corpus of poetry. I argue that the primary function of the paradigmatic persona that is configured in the Solonian corpus is not autobiographical commentary on or self-defense of what the historical Solon did as lawgiver and statesman, but rather for any performer of the poetry in Solon’s absence, historical or metaphorical, to reenact a Solonian sophos as an isolated lawgiver standing in opposition to the tyrant.
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