O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a memória cultural de Sólon de Atenas no texto “A Constituição dos Atenienses”, atribuído a Aristóteles. Esta obra realiza uma interpretação da poesia de Sólon e do seu contexto histórico através de uma investigação historiográfica da memória política de Atenas. A formação da memória cultural de Sólon nesta obra é um objeto privilegiado para abordar a memória da democracia, a concepção de regime democrático no contexto do séc. IV ateniense, e o estatuto do conhecimento histórico no contexto intelectual da escola aristotélica. / The aim of this research is to study the cultural memory of Solon of Athens on the text “The Athenians Constitution” ascribed to Aristotle. This source performs an interpretation of the Solon’s poetry and his historical context through a historiographical investigation about the political memory of Athens. The shaping of the cultural memory of Solon in this source is a privileged object to approach the memory of ancient democracy, the 4th century BC conception of democratic regime and the historical knowledge status on the context of the Aristotelian school.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a memória cultural de Sólon de Atenas no texto “A Constituição dos Atenienses”, atribuído a Aristóteles. Esta obra realiza uma interpretação da poesia de Sólon e do seu contexto histórico através de uma investigação historiográfica da memória política de Atenas. A formação da memória cultural de Sólon nesta obra é um objeto privilegiado para abordar a memória da democracia, a concepção de regime democrático no contexto do séc. IV ateniense, e o estatuto do conhecimento histórico no contexto intelectual da escola aristotélica. / The aim of this research is to study the cultural memory of Solon of Athens on the text “The Athenians Constitution” ascribed to Aristotle. This source performs an interpretation of the Solon’s poetry and his historical context through a historiographical investigation about the political memory of Athens. The shaping of the cultural memory of Solon in this source is a privileged object to approach the memory of ancient democracy, the 4th century BC conception of democratic regime and the historical knowledge status on the context of the Aristotelian school.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é estudar a memória cultural de Sólon de Atenas no texto “A Constituição dos Atenienses”, atribuído a Aristóteles. Esta obra realiza uma interpretação da poesia de Sólon e do seu contexto histórico através de uma investigação historiográfica da memória política de Atenas. A formação da memória cultural de Sólon nesta obra é um objeto privilegiado para abordar a memória da democracia, a concepção de regime democrático no contexto do séc. IV ateniense, e o estatuto do conhecimento histórico no contexto intelectual da escola aristotélica. / The aim of this research is to study the cultural memory of Solon of Athens on the text “The Athenians Constitution” ascribed to Aristotle. This source performs an interpretation of the Solon’s poetry and his historical context through a historiographical investigation about the political memory of Athens. The shaping of the cultural memory of Solon in this source is a privileged object to approach the memory of ancient democracy, the 4th century BC conception of democratic regime and the historical knowledge status on the context of the Aristotelian school.

Before 1891, it was commonly accepted that the most important source for the rule of the Four Hundred in Athens in 411 BCE was Thucydides' description. The situation changed thanks to the publication of the Aristotelian treatise On the Athenian Constitution, whose version of events differed markedly from Thucydides' one. There followed many attempts at determining which of the two versions was most reliable, or at combining the two versions. These controversies are the focal point of this thesis, but its ambitions are not limited to them: its ambition is also to reconstruct the chronology of the rule of the Four Hundred as precisely as is possible in context of the Peloponnesian war; and to formulate the limitations that are imposed on us by the character of sources at our disposal. Continuity of the coup with earlier developments and its impact on subsequent events are dealt with more briefly.