CIVILIZATION
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Question
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Solon
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Archon
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Zeno
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Ziggurat
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Detailed explanation-1: -archon, Greek Archōn, in ancient Greece, the chief magistrate or magistrates in many city-states. The office became prominent in the Archaic period, when the kings (basileis) were being superseded by aristocrats. At Athens the list of annual archons begins with 682 bc.
Detailed explanation-2: -: a chief magistrate in ancient Athens. : a presiding officer.
Detailed explanation-3: -The nine archons included the “eponymous archon”, the archon basileus, the polemarch and the six thesmothetai. At the beginning of the 5thcentury only those from the two wealthiest classes, that is the pentakossiomedimnoi and the hippeis were eligible for office. From 457/6 B.C. the zeugitai were also eligible.
Detailed explanation-4: -Solon had already held office as archon (annual chief ruler) about 594 bce. It was probably about 20 years later that he was given full powers as reformer and legislator.