effect of Solon’s land reformSolon canceled all “debt” (as stated, this cannot yet have been debt incurred in a monetary form). He also abolished enslavement for debt, pulling up the boundary markers, or horoi, which indicated some sort of obligation. This act of pulling up the horoi was a sign that he had “freed the black earth.” The men whose land was designated by these horoi......or mortgage stones, which served as symbols of land enserfment. When Solon was elected archon, or chief magistrate, c. 594 bce, his main objective was to free the land and destroy the horoi. His reform law, known as the seisachtheia, or “shaking-off the burdens,” cancelled all debts, freed the hektēmoroi, destroyed the horoi, and restored...
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