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    Democracy versus oligarchy

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    democracy · oligarchy · the democracy

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    Oligarchy versus democracy1 mention

    History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)

    As for the allied states, again, to whom, forsooth, they had promised an oligarchy, because they themselves also would cease to be under a democracy, he well knew that neither those which had revolted would any the more on that account come over to them, nor those that were left be more staunch to them;
    book 8

    in the texts

    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;
    book 6
    and that all these things, both severally and collectively, have their due share allotted to them in a democracy.
    book 6
    As for the allied states, again, to whom, forsooth, they had promised an oligarchy, because they themselves also would cease to be under a democracy, he well knew that neither those which had revolted would any the more on that account come over to them, nor those that were left be more staunch to them;
    book 8

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

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

    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.
    book 7
    When the aristocrats and the commons at Sicyon had fallen into strife, Euphron obtained a force of mercenaries from Athens and came back again.
    book 7