Competition, Tyranny, and the Birth of Ancient Greece
Tides of History
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The Aristocracy and the Prosperity of the Greek World
The aristocratic class that dominated the early police weren't a holdover from some less developed Greek dark age. The new aristocracy not only dominated the political institutions of the polis and had in effect crafted them for their own benefit. But same circumstances that created a powerful and wealthy aristocracy also benefited the prosperous free farmers who were Hesiod's ideal type. This alternative, encapsulated in the term Habrosine, was closely associated with the symposium.
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