The idea of equality even among the peers (the homoioi) is also probably a myth. We see evidence for rich Spartiates and poor spartiates at the moment the sources are good enough to know.
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Invalidates? Of course not. But we have to read sources critically. Aristotle and Xenophon are both openly snobby elitists who think the good-and-noble (kaloi kagathoi) *ought* to dominate affairs because they are *actually* better than poor people.
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We might reasonably question the rubric that belief is going to lead them to use in evaluating a society, the same way we might doubt Cicero's opinion on the divine rightness of Roman law.
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And I want to be clear here - both of those men are *explicit* in this point. I'm not reading into Aristotle when he claims that the high-born and noble are simply capable of more virtue than everyone else. Nor was that a universal ancient belief.
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Strikingly unique, I'll grant you, but unique in the way Nazi Germany or Stalinist USSR is unique. it is a unique moral abomination.
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