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Subsequently, from Delphi, Solon called for retaliation, against [[Kirra]], which had offended Delphi's temple. All Greece was stirred by this request although the military campaign wasn't led by Solon, being led instead by [[Alcmaeon]]. <ref>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives/Solon Solon by Plutarch]</ref>
By his already overwhelming political power, Solon resolved the [[Cylon of Athens|Cylon]] crisis, which had divided Athens, into two factions. The nine Athenian Archons had repressed Cylon's revolutionary fellows so bloodily that the horrified Athenians believed that these Archons were evilly accursed.
Whilst Cylon's party was regaining popular support, Solon mustered the noblest Athenians and, by his great reputation, Solon prevailed politically against the accused Archon's stand, organizing a public trial, with a 300 individual jury --which was picked, from the Athenian cream--. The Archons were found guilty. The sentence stipulated that the living ones had to leave Attica whereas the dead ones had to be reburied abroad. <ref>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives/Solon Solon by Plutarch]</ref>
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