caa a22 4500 386376662 CHVBK 20180307112021.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632041 doi S0075426900012696 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632041 Brock Roger Balliol College, Oxford Athenian oligarchs: the numbers game [Elektronische Daten] [Roger Brock] By the last quarter of the fifth century it was generally agreed that there were three basic forms of government: monarchy, democracy and oligarchy, and this basic division continued to the end of the classical period. For the Athenians, this choice was for practical purposes reduced to one between democracy and oligarchy: kings might appear on the tragic stage, but in contemporary Athens sole rule was synonymous with tyranny, a form of government which had been beyond the pale since the expulsion of the Peisistratids. Indeed, in the late fifth century it was the object of a public hysteria which affords Aristophanes much scope for satire, particularly in Bdelycleon's speech in Vesp. 488 f. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 160-164 0075-4269 109<160 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632041 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632041 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brock Roger Balliol College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 160-164 0075-4269 109<160 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge