Solon's ekstatic stratgy : stasis and the subject/citizen

Hegel famously argues that the ancient Greeks did not have a notion of the subject because they lacked a conception of self-consciousness. There is, nonetheless, something enticing in Hegel's notion of the Greek subject as lacking self-consciousness by Hegel. In particular, the lack of a reliance on reflection for the determination of human agency is intimately linked to, even inextricable from, the conception of the citizen. What the ancient Greek "subject" may lack in self-reflexivity, thereby never arriving at the idea of transcendental subjectivity, it compensates for with a decisively olitical insistence on human action and thought.