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During the final years of the fifth century BC, the Athenians were involved in a long war with Sparta, which they eventually lost in 404. Democracy was replaced by a brutal and violent oligarchy imposed by the Spartans, although within months the democrats had ousted the regime of the so-called ‘Thirty Tyrants’ and democracy was restored. And yet democracy and the democratic ideal had suffered during the long years of war; particularly from among the Athenian intelligentsia there were, at the end of the fifth century BC and the beginning of the fourth, demands for new ways of conceptualising constitutional rule.
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Mitchell, L. (2013). Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great. In: Fictional Leaders. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272751_2
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