Aristotle in his Politics, agrees with this decision, and comments that Solon "gave people only the necessary minimum of power" (41). ... Women, slaves, metics, who were those of foreign birth, and those who had only one Athenian parent were not eligible for governmental activity of any kind. ... In regard to women, they only fulfilled domestic duties. ...

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