What did solon achieve

Solon achieved many things during his year of power in 594 BC. He made many changes to the economic, political and social structure in the polis of Athens. In this writing I am first going to discuss the situation in Athens before Solon and the things that led to power. I will then talk about the background and qualification for his position. I will cover the aims and goals Solon wanted to achieve when he came to power. I will then look at Salons reforms the way he changed the economic status of Athens, the way people perceived a polis could be run. The way different people were divided through his social reforms. Finally I will discuss whether Solon was the father of democracy or whether he just paved the way for it.
Athens is one of the many poleis’s that make up Greece. In the years leading up to the rule of Solon there was much turmoil in many of the neighbouring poleis. Many had become a tyranny or a state with an elected dictator like in Mytinene with Aisynetes. Athens was in...