For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos", meaning best, and ...

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Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?