“El modelo político de Solón: la aplicación de Dike y la participación del demos en la politeia”, Studia Historica (Historia Antigua), 23, 2005, 57-74

The meaning and the purposes of Solon's reforms have been broadlydisputed by contemporary authors, mainly regarding to his conception andapplication of justice. In this article we analyse the coincidence between which isknown about his reforms in later sources and his direct testimony in his poems. Thepolitical and judicial reforms of Solon (both, politics and justice, are strongly associatedat that time), reveal two main innovations which contribute to open the pathtowards the democracy of the vth Century B.C. One of these innovations is the integrationof the demos without land (the thetes) in the citizenship (with political and,over all, judicial active rights); the other measure is the possibility for the demos, asa mechanism of judicial and political control of the aristocratic activity, to participateactively in the political and judicial decision making (in a restricted way), whichincrease the auto conscience and autonomy of this demos through the vith Century