Cities
grew.
People
prospered.
The polis consolidated
Government
became more complex.
Aristocracies
of the new revival
Became
Oligarchies.
Writing
held history and ancient knowledge.
Homer
begot Hesiod.
Hesiod
begot other poets.
Sappho
sang of weddings
Writing
hymns to the gods for luck in love
As
she walked her island paths.
Others
sang to regular people
About
regular people.
Trails
on pottery
Showed
the mighty deeds of warriors from a long dead time.
Hoplite
armies rumbled throughout the land
In
packed phalanx formation
Like
shining human tanks.
Records
were kept and used
Some
for the good of people
Others
for their own good.
Tyrants
came
Bringing
thinkers, artists and architects
They
also brought curses
Raising
armies to seize control
Cylon
brought conspiracy and betrayal.
He
begot the divine snake, Draco
Who
wrote his laws in blood.
“I
thought it was necessary,”
He
said as he shrugged.
Then
things changed when he died.
Civil
war broke out.
Solon,
the sun king came down
Repealing
the snake’s evil bloody declarations.
He
stilled the mighty war god
With
his shield of justice and compromise.
“I
can’t satisfy everyone,” he said,
“But
I’ll do my best and I will not sell my arete
in anyway.”
His
strong arete
Proved
his strength as a man.
Solon
led Athens to democracy
As
tyrants slipped into history
With
the age of heroes.
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