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Solon created Athenian democracy by writing new and better laws than Draco had left them. Yet this form of democracy is different than what we know of the term today. Solon also led Athens in great battles, wrote poetry, traveled widely, learned of the lost city of Atlantis, and gave King Croesus advice about happiness that saved his life. Listen to lea…