The Apology
   Part
 1 Text |             democracy. But when the oligarchy of the Thirty was in power,


Gorgias
   Part
 2 Intro|        transition from timocracy to oligarchy: the sun, which is to the


Laws
   Book
 3 4    |            less easily when from an oligarchy; and, in the third degree,
 4 4    |     capacity for improvement, comes oligarchy, which has the greatest
 5 4    |            whether in a monarchy or oligarchy of wealth or of birth. You
 6 4    |          some form of democracy, or oligarchy, or aristocracy, or monarchy?
 7 4    |        either a single person or an oligarchy or a democracy has a soul
 8 8    |  governments are a cause—democracy, oligarchy, tyranny, concerning which


The Republic
   Book
 9 8    |           applauded; what is termed oligarchy comes next; this is not
10 8    |             which naturally follows oligarchy, although very different:
11 8    |           and, after that, consider oligarchy and the oligarchical man;
12 8    |           form intermediate between oligarchy and aristocracy? ~Very true. ~
13 8    |             being in a mean between oligarchy and the perfect State, will
14 8    |          all means. ~I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. ~
15 8    |           of government do you term oligarchy? ~A government resting on
16 8    |            change from timocracy to oligarchy arises? ~Yes. ~Well, I said,
17 8    |            lower in another, as the oligarchy is more or less exclusive;
18 8    |      generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established. ~Yes, he
19 8    |           the first great defect of oligarchy? ~Clearly. ~And here is
20 8    |           and such are the evils of oligarchy; and there may be many other
21 8    |          evils. ~Very likely. ~Then oligarchy, or the form of government
22 8    |         like the State out of which oligarchy came. ~Let us then consider
23 8    |            how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is
24 8    |         sort? ~How? ~The good which oligarchy proposed to itself and the
25 8    | money-getting were also the ruin of oligarchy? ~True. ~And democracy has
26 8    |             next step? ~The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy;
27 8    |         which is generated alike in oligarchy and democracy, and is the
28 8    |         people and being friends of oligarchy? True. ~And the end is that


The Statesman
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29 Intro|            they not three—monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy? and the
30 Intro|           into royalty and tyranny; oligarchy into aristocracy and plutocracy;
31 Intro|            if they neglect the law, oligarchy. When an individual rules
32 Intro|             royalty and tyranny; of oligarchy there were two kinds, aristocracy
33 Text |            names of aristocracy and oligarchy.~YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly.~
34 Text |             regardless of the laws, oligarchy.~YOUNG SOCRATES: True.~STRANGER:
35 Text |             an auspicious name, and oligarchy; and democracy or the rule