Democracy versus oligarchy · Atlas

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History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

The people were at first very indignant on hearing mention made of the oligarchy;

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

The contested political principle of rule by the many versus rule by the few, debated explicitly by Athenagoras in his speech to the Syracusan assembly.

But I say, in the first place, that 'democracy' is a name for all, but ' oligarchy' for only a part;

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and that all these things, both severally and collectively, have their due share allotted to them in a democracy.

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The people were at first very indignant on hearing mention made of the oligarchy;

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HellenicaClassical · Greek

The recurring conflict between democratic and oligarchic constitutions that structures the internal politics of Sicyon and Elis in this section.

When the aristocrats and the commons at Sicyon had fallen into strife, Euphron obtained a force of mercenaries from Athens and came back again.

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For the party of Charopus, Thrasonidas, and Argeius were trying to convert the state into a democracy, and the party of Eualcas, Hippias, and Stratolas into an oligarchy.

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