Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.127

c7.127

cracy, on more or less uniform plan, not only in the Dorian States of the Peloponnesus, in Crete, and to a certain extent in Thera, but also in Thessaly: while both in Boeotia and Elis the ruling class owed their position to the right of conquest.¹