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Quotation from Pericles' Funeral Oration by Pericles

“Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy.”

Pericles

Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.37, trans. Richard Crawley (1874)

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Pericles defines the Athenian constitution by whom it serves.

Citation: "Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy." — Pericles, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.37, trans. Richard Crawley (1874). (id pericles-funeral-oration-q2)

Portrait: Discurso funebre pericles, Philipp Foltz, Public domain.

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