Poet Sophocles - Solon 638-558 BC successful as a reformer. Solon was one of the leading citizens of Athens – a wise man, a poet This Roman bust in the Uffizi Museum in Florence is inscribed as being of Solon. However the inscription is late – probably put on in the Renaissance – and it is more likely to be a bust of the poet Sophocles Galleria degli Uffizi, 1581, Founder: Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Florence, Italy, Italy, 1st - 2nd Century AD

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