ABSTRACT
Herodotus provides a particularly impressive report of the meeting between Solon and Croesus, which will become a conventional model for the way in which a dialogue involving a Greek sage and an “Eastern” monarch might have unfolded, thus paving the way to combine ethnicity and wisdom in the shaping of a sophos. It is the aim of this paper to study the afterlife of the debate between Croesus and Solon, and the way it evolved from an almost neutral approach in Herodotus (in terms of ethnic tension) to a vividly marked portrait of Hellenicity combined with ethnicity in Plutarch.
