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SOLON AND THE LAW AGAINST NEUTRALITY

Year 2018, Issue: 30, 89 - 98, 15.01.2018

Esengül Akıncı Öztürk

Abstract

Despite his fame for his neutrality and advocacy of socio-political stability, some ancient authors, most notably, Aristotle
attributes a law to Solon that forbids neutrality as well as passivity in times of civil strife. While some strongly argue against
the authenticity of the law, some put forward several arguments in favor of its authenticity. After roughly mentioning the
economic and social circumstances that lead to both Solon’s appointment to an eponymous archonship and his reforms, I
will take up the issue of the authenticity of the so-called Solon’s law against neutrality and explicate the arguments given on
both sides.

Keywords

Solon Law against neutrality Aristotle Plutarch Lysias Hignett Goldstein

References

  • Aristoteles (1935). Athenaion Politeia, (The Athenian Constitution, The Eudemian Ethics, on Virtues and Vices, çev. H. Rackham), Londra: Loeb.
  • Bers, V. (1975). “Solon's Law Forbidding Neutrality and Lysias 31”, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 24/3, 493-8.
  • Bintliff, J. (2006). “Solon's Reforms: An Archaeological Perspective”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Blok, J. And Lardinois, A. (2006). “Introduction”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Buckley, T. (2010). Aspects of Greek History 750–323 BC: A Source-Based Approach, Routledge, London & New York.
  • Cicero, M. Tullius. (1903). Epistulae ad Atticum, (Ed.L. C. Purser), Oxford.
  • David, E. (1984). “Solon, Neutrality and Partisan Literature of Late Fifthcentury Athens”, Museum Helveticum, 41/3, 129-38.
  • Diogenes Laertius (1925) Bioi kai Gnomai ton en Philosophia Eudokimesanton (Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers in Ten Books I- II, Çev. R. D. Hicks), Londra: Loeb.
  • Forsdyke, S. (2006). “Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse Between Archaeology and History”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Gilliard, C. (1907). Quelques Réformes de Solon, Lausanne, Bridel.
  • Goldstein, J. A. (1972), “Solon's Law for an Activist Citizenry”, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 21/4, 538-545.
  • Goušchin, V. (2016). “Solon's law on stasis and the rise of Pisistratus in 561/0 BC”, Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa, 59/1, 101-113.
  • Harris, E. M. (1997). “A New Solution to the Riddle of the Seisachteia”, The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, (Ed: L. G. Mitchell and P. J. Rhodes), Routledge, New York.
  • Herodotos (1921) Herodotou Historiai, (çev. A. D. Godley), Londra: Loeb.
  • Hölkeskamp, K.J. (2005). “What's in a Code? Solon's Laws between Complexity, Compilation and Contingency”, Hermes, 133/3, 280-293.
  • İplikçioğlu, B. (2015). Hellen ve Roma Tarihinin Anahatları. Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul.
  • Kaya, M.A. (2016). Ege ve Eski Yunan Tarihi-I, Bilge Kültür Sanat, İstanbul.
  • Linforth, I. M. (1919). Solon the Athenian. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Lysias (1930). Against Philon, (çev.W. R. M. Lamb), Londra: Loeb.
  • Martin, R. P. (2017). “Seven Sages”, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, (Ed: R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion and A. Erskine), Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA.
  • Martin, R. P. (1998), “The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom”, Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics, (Ed: C. Dougherty and L. Kurke), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Meiggs, R. And Lewis, D. M. (1988). A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford.
  • Noussia-Fantuzzi, M. (2010). Solon the Athenian, the Poetic Fragments, Brill, Leiden.
  • Osborne, R. (2009). Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC, second edition, London and Newyork.
  • Plutarkhos (1914). Bioi Paralleloi (Plutarch’s Lives, I [ Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, Solon and Publicola] Vol. I, Çev. B. Perrin), Londra: Loeb.
  • Robertson, N. (1986). “Solon's Axones and Kyrbeis, and the Sixth-Century Background (Figs. 1-2)”, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 35/2, 147-176.
  • Rhodes, P. J. (1993). A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia. Oxford.
  • Sagstetter, K. C. (2013), From Solon of Athens: The Man, the Myth, the Tyrant? (Publicly accessible doctoral thesis), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, <http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/923 >.
  • Scafuro, A. C. (2006), “Identifying Solonian Laws”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Sickinger, J. P. (1999). Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London.
  • Teegarden, D. A. (2014). “The Inauthenticity of Solon's Law against Neutrality”, Buffalo Law Review, 62, 157-175.
  • Tekin, O. (2016). Eski Yunan ve Roma Tarihine Giriş. İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul.
  • Van't Wout, P. E. (2010), “Solon's Law on Statis: Promoting Active Neutrality”, The Classical Quarterly, 60/2, 289-301.
  • West, M. L. (1972). Iambi et elegi Graeci, Oxford.
  • Wolpert, A. (2002). Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

SOLON VE TARAFSIZLIK KARŞITI YASASI

Year 2018, Issue: 30, 89 - 98, 15.01.2018

Esengül Akıncı Öztürk

Abstract

Tarafsızlığı ve sosyo-politik istikrarı savunmasıyla ünlü olmasına rağmen, başta Aristoteles olmak üzere bazı antik yazarlar, iç
çatışma zamanında tarafsızlığı ve pasifliği yasaklayan bir yasayı Solon’a atfeder. Bu makalede, bunun Solon yasalarından biri
olup olmadığı sorusu ele alınacaktır. Solon’un arkhon seçilmesine neden olan sosyo-ekonomik durum ve onun tam yetkili bir
arkhon olarak gerçekleştirdiği reformlara kabaca değinildikten sonra, tarafsızlık karşıtı yasasının varlığına karşı öne sürülen
argümanlar etraflıca tartışılacaktır.

Keywords

Solon Tarafsızlık karşıtı yasası Aristoteles Plutarkhos Lysias Hignett Goldstein

References

  • Aristoteles (1935). Athenaion Politeia, (The Athenian Constitution, The Eudemian Ethics, on Virtues and Vices, çev. H. Rackham), Londra: Loeb.
  • Bers, V. (1975). “Solon's Law Forbidding Neutrality and Lysias 31”, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 24/3, 493-8.
  • Bintliff, J. (2006). “Solon's Reforms: An Archaeological Perspective”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Blok, J. And Lardinois, A. (2006). “Introduction”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Buckley, T. (2010). Aspects of Greek History 750–323 BC: A Source-Based Approach, Routledge, London & New York.
  • Cicero, M. Tullius. (1903). Epistulae ad Atticum, (Ed.L. C. Purser), Oxford.
  • David, E. (1984). “Solon, Neutrality and Partisan Literature of Late Fifthcentury Athens”, Museum Helveticum, 41/3, 129-38.
  • Diogenes Laertius (1925) Bioi kai Gnomai ton en Philosophia Eudokimesanton (Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers in Ten Books I- II, Çev. R. D. Hicks), Londra: Loeb.
  • Forsdyke, S. (2006). “Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse Between Archaeology and History”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Gilliard, C. (1907). Quelques Réformes de Solon, Lausanne, Bridel.
  • Goldstein, J. A. (1972), “Solon's Law for an Activist Citizenry”, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 21/4, 538-545.
  • Goušchin, V. (2016). “Solon's law on stasis and the rise of Pisistratus in 561/0 BC”, Acta Classica: Proceedings of the Classical Association of South Africa, 59/1, 101-113.
  • Harris, E. M. (1997). “A New Solution to the Riddle of the Seisachteia”, The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, (Ed: L. G. Mitchell and P. J. Rhodes), Routledge, New York.
  • Herodotos (1921) Herodotou Historiai, (çev. A. D. Godley), Londra: Loeb.
  • Hölkeskamp, K.J. (2005). “What's in a Code? Solon's Laws between Complexity, Compilation and Contingency”, Hermes, 133/3, 280-293.
  • İplikçioğlu, B. (2015). Hellen ve Roma Tarihinin Anahatları. Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul.
  • Kaya, M.A. (2016). Ege ve Eski Yunan Tarihi-I, Bilge Kültür Sanat, İstanbul.
  • Linforth, I. M. (1919). Solon the Athenian. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Lysias (1930). Against Philon, (çev.W. R. M. Lamb), Londra: Loeb.
  • Martin, R. P. (2017). “Seven Sages”, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, (Ed: R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion and A. Erskine), Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA.
  • Martin, R. P. (1998), “The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom”, Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics, (Ed: C. Dougherty and L. Kurke), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Meiggs, R. And Lewis, D. M. (1988). A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford.
  • Noussia-Fantuzzi, M. (2010). Solon the Athenian, the Poetic Fragments, Brill, Leiden.
  • Osborne, R. (2009). Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC, second edition, London and Newyork.
  • Plutarkhos (1914). Bioi Paralleloi (Plutarch’s Lives, I [ Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, Solon and Publicola] Vol. I, Çev. B. Perrin), Londra: Loeb.
  • Robertson, N. (1986). “Solon's Axones and Kyrbeis, and the Sixth-Century Background (Figs. 1-2)”, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 35/2, 147-176.
  • Rhodes, P. J. (1993). A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia. Oxford.
  • Sagstetter, K. C. (2013), From Solon of Athens: The Man, the Myth, the Tyrant? (Publicly accessible doctoral thesis), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, <http://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/923 >.
  • Scafuro, A. C. (2006), “Identifying Solonian Laws”, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, (Ed: J. H. Blok and A. P. M. H. Lardinois), Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden.
  • Sickinger, J. P. (1999). Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London.
  • Teegarden, D. A. (2014). “The Inauthenticity of Solon's Law against Neutrality”, Buffalo Law Review, 62, 157-175.
  • Tekin, O. (2016). Eski Yunan ve Roma Tarihine Giriş. İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul.
  • Van't Wout, P. E. (2010), “Solon's Law on Statis: Promoting Active Neutrality”, The Classical Quarterly, 60/2, 289-301.
  • West, M. L. (1972). Iambi et elegi Graeci, Oxford.
  • Wolpert, A. (2002). Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Archaeological Science
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Esengül Akıncı Öztürk

Publication Date January 15, 2018
Acceptance Date October 3, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2018 Issue: 30

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APA Akıncı Öztürk, E. (2018). SOLON VE TARAFSIZLIK KARŞITI YASASI. Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute(30), 89-98.
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