Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Xenophon (444 BCE-357 BCE)


Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Books from Alibris: Xenophon

1 comments:

Ricardo Mena said...

Sure.

Aristocracy was what "democracy" meant in the city-states of classical Greece: only for the powerful and wealthy citizens that possess a certain and minimum parcel of land.