Solon was a famous statesmen and politician from Ancient Greece who was known as one of the "Seven Wise Men of Greece." He was born in 630 BCE and died in 560 BCE. Solon helped to end exclusive aristocratic control of the government and instead created a system that gave more power to a wider class of wealthy Athenians, in addition he helped to introduce a new legal code in Athens that wise widely considered more humane. Solon was also known and revered for his poetry.
