The Power of the Onwash

A hundred and 80 miles to the south, the spartans were not cosmopolitan ionians. They were inwardly blinkered dorians. The board of generals had to be elected. That was powerful job. In the primary arc on, pericles, each year had to have a vote of confidence for almost 30 years. But that was a model, and it was imperial. It was cosmopolitan. It was exciting. And so the people thought, well, that's an example of what the power of the onwash really does. Because there was a very low property qualification of the 20 to 25 or 30 thousand citizens. There was a large middle class of hoplites.