Sublime

La Démocratie athénienne, la République romaine, la République vénitienne ou encore les démocraties européennes de la fin du XIXe siècle étaient toutes des régimes relativement égalitaires, comparativement à leurs voisins. Mais ce furent aussi les pires colonisateurs, hors de leurs frontières. La misarchie est sans doute le régime politique le plus

So that no man would have grounds to feel superior to another, Lycurgus divided the country into 9000 equal plots of land. To each family, he gave one plot. Further, he decreed that the men no longer be called “citizens” but “peers” or “equals.” So that no man might compete with another or put on airs over wealth, Lycurgus outlawed money. A coin su

This was called ostracism; this institution was not peculiar to Athens; it was found at Argos, at Megara, at Syracuse, and we may believe that it existed in all the Greek cities.454