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Chilon

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Chilon (kī`lŏn), 6th cent. B.C., one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece Seven Wise Men of Greece, list of men drawn from among the outstanding politicians and political philosophers of ancient Greece. Although such listings differed widely, a usual one included Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus, Solon, and Thales.
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. He was a Spartan and brought greater strictness to Spartan training. As an ephor (c.556 B.C.) he strengthened the power of that position, and for the first time the ephors directed policy with the king.


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2000): 463 shade trees/ha in traditional shaded coffee plantations of Chilon (Mexico) versus up to 508 trees/ha in the Polygeneric Shaded coffee plantations in this study (Table 2).
On July 6, a few days before the gathering, hundreds of rebel sympathizers in the tiny Zapatista autonomous community of Olga Isabel, near the troubled municipality of Chilon, blocked road-grading machines sent in by Gov.
Although there is no definitive list of the Sages, Diogenes Laertius indicates the commonly regarded members of the group to be: (1) Thales, (2) Solon, (3) Periander, (4) Cleobulus, (5) Chilon, (6) Bias, and (7) Pittacus.
 
 
 
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