Deed — 3 authors face each other below

the meeting of Solon and Croesus

kind: meeting · c. 560-546 BCE (chronology disputed) — the editor’s frame · 6 mentions across 6 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The wisdom-audience at Sardis: 'count no man happy until he is dead.' Served as a telling whose historicity the record itself debates.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Plutarch, against the chronologists: 'when a story is so famous and so well-attested... I cannot reject it because of chronological canons.' Herodotus gives the full dialogue; Diogenes Laertius gives a rival version of the exchange and the correspondence tradition. The event's date is itself the drama.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 560–546 BCE on the editor’s table of years — the record supports 594–546 BCE.

· 560–546 BCE — date contested ·

The tradition sets the meeting in Croesus' reign (560-546); chronographers ancient and modern doubt Solon lived to make it. Plutarch states the objection and overrules it on the story's fame — the apparatus preserved in the witness itself.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Diogenes Laertius · one account

1.49-53 the principal narrative The Lives' version: the throne question and the cocks-and-pheasants retort.

There Croesus put the question, ‘‘ Whom do you | consider happy?” and Solon replied, “ Tellus of Athens D.L. 1.49-50

asked Solon if he had ever seen anything more beautiful. ‘‘ Yes,” was the reply, “ cocks and pheasants and peacocks D.L. 1.51-53

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V) · R. D. Hicks, 1925

Herodotus · one account

1.29–1.33 the principal narrative The canonical dialogue: Tellus, Cleobis and Biton, the jealous god.

said, “O King, it is Tellus the Athenian.” Croesus was amazed at what he had said Hdt. 1.30

“Croesus, you ask me about human affairs, and I know that the divine is entirely Hdt. 1.32

The Histories · A. D. Godley, 1920–25

Plutarch · one account

27–28 auditing another's account Plutarch defending the meeting against chronology before retelling it.

As for his interview with Croesus, some think to prove by chronology that it is fictitious. Plut. Solon 27

as he lay bound upon the pyre in the sight of all the Persians and of Cyrus himself Plut. Solon 28

The witness argues with the calendar: fame and fittingness against 'chronological canons.' Solon · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Croesus — 4 episodes shared Solon — 4 episodes shared Aesop — 1 episode shared Amasis — 1 episode shared Codrus — 1 episode shared Cyrus — a candidate entry Cyrus the Great — 1 episode shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

lives · deeds · times · the shelf