History is a graveyard of aristocracies.
“If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe.”
“The history of man is the history of the continuous replacement of certain elites: as one ascends, another declines.”
An analysis of how ruling elites gain, maintain and lose power, and how new groups replace declining elites.
An account of the war between Athens and Sparta, examining its causes, campaigns, political struggles and effects on Greek society.