Word: solon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fishwife Solon, Bella Abzug, is not a figure of fun but a frightening symbol of what political standards in this country have declined to. This rude, raucous and profane woman debases the democratic process and brings home to us the truth that what is popular is not necessarily palatable...
...weakest parts of the novel are Agathon's reminiscences about his past before he became a seer. He tells us of his marriage to Tuka, the beautiful daughter of an Athenian nobleman at whose home he was tutored, of his involvement with the gross but practical Solon, of his fascination with the Helot Iona, who later becomes a leader of the rebellion. Interesting enough, but all this smacks of soap opera, and at any rate the young Agathon seems pale in comparison to what he becomes...