Solon

Role: Athenian · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 37

Life events

Clisthenes was chosen leader, and Solon was invited to advise the war against Cirrha.(Book 10 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Cirrha)
- With: Clisthenes
- “The Amphictyones resolved therefore to war against the people of Cirrha, and chose for their leader Clisthenes the king of Sicyon, and invited Solon the Athenian to assist them by his counsel.”
Solon consecrated Cirrha’s surrounding land to Apollo and diverted the river Plistus.(Book 10 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Cirrha)
- “Solon persuaded them therefore to consecrate to the god the land about Cirrha, that the grove of Apollo might extend as far as the sea. He invented also another ingenious contrivance against the people of Cirrha: he turned the course of the river Plistus which flowed through the town.”
The Amphictyones captured Cirrha and punished its inhabitants for their impiety against Apollo.(Book 10 · Chapter 37 · 📍 Cirrha)
- With: Clisthenes
- “And when he thought the water of the river sufficiently impregnated with this, he turned it back into its ordinary channel, and the people of Cirrha, drinking freely of the water, were attacked with an incessant diarrhœa, and unable to man the walls, so the Amphictyones captured the town, and took vengeance on the inhabitants for their conduct to the god, and Cirrha became the seaport of Delphi.”

with Clisthenes (Clisthenes led the campaign while Solon assisted it with his counsel.) “The Amphictyones resolved therefore to war against the people of Cirrha, and chose for their leader Clisthenes the king of Sicyon, and invited Solon the Athenian to assist them by his counsel.”
with Apollo (Solon persuaded the Amphictyones to consecrate the land to Apollo.) “Solon persuaded them therefore to consecrate to the god the land about Cirrha, that the grove of Apollo might extend as far as the sea.”

Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.