Lycurgus turned Sparta from a city ruled by an aristocratic elite into a far broader oligarchy dedicated solely to warfare. By 500 BC it had conquered almost all of the surrounding territory and ...

Today’s Democratic Party is about the aristocracy ruling. Democrats are indisputably the party of America’s elite. The ...

Greek philosopher Aristotle used the term to describe the rule of aristocracy, or elite powerful societal class, according to National Geographic. "However, to Aristotle, an aristocracy signified ...

“Today’s society benefits those who shaped it, and it has been shaped not by working men and women, but by the aristocratic elite,” he said, reading from prepared remarks obtained by ...

Besides money and the right real estate, a self-conscious set of shared values defined Boston's aristocracy. Boston Brahmins prized culture and education. Boston's elite liked to think of their ...