Abstract
Following the analysis of the elegy in Solon'sEunomia, the aim is to deepen our understanding of the articulation between divine authority and political action in his work. Fragments 5, 34 and 36 of the West edition are thus called to the stand to understand how the passage from a state of dysnomia to a state ofeunomia is translated for the city. Solon's action, as he claims it and makes it explicit in these fragments, consists in closely interweaving violence (bia) and justice (dikē) in the resolution of conflicts, and such a reference makes it necessary to once again summon work on the earlier poetic tradition and, even more specifically, on the work of Hesiod. A systematic comparison between the resolution of the stasis of the gods in the Theogony and Solon's action in the face of the stasis threatening his city, with forays into Works & Days, enables us to refine our understanding of fragment 36, where the lawgiver evokes the laws he has enacted ( thesmoi), by reintegrating into the poem " the power of the nomos " as authorized by certain witnesses to the transmission of the text. If this reading is acceptable, it places in the background of Solon's actions the imperatives of an order willed by the gods.
