8 sentences with “aristocrats”

Hoplites were important politically because they were not always aristocrats, although they had to be free citizens able to pay for their own weapons.

In the 7th century BC, hoplites in many polis clamoured for better political representation, as traditional aristocrats excluded them from meaningful political power.

By the 1st century BC, Stoicism was the Greek philosophy of choice for many Roman aristocrats (a later Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, was even a Stoic philosopher in his own right).

The games were a combination of religious festival and competition in which the aristocrats of each city competed in various sports, including javelin, discus, foot races and a brutal form of unarmed combat called pankration.

Similarly, all Roman aristocrats acquired their political power through military glory until the end of the republic, and even then military glory was all that was required for a man to achieve any kind of political importance.

In their strident attacks on newspapers, they also worked to undermine traditional forms of deference and subservience to aristocrats, in this case Federalist elites. Some members of Northern Democratic-Republican clubs also denounced slavery.

In that, they found a surprisingly sympathetic audience among some conservative aristocrats who also feared social disorder and were nostalgic for the idea of a reciprocal set of obligations that had existed in pre-revolutionary Europe between the common people and the nobility.

The Antifederalists argued that wealthy aristocrats would run the new national government and that the elite would not represent ordinary citizens; the wealthy would monopolise power and use the new government to formulate policies that benefited their class, which would also undermine local state elites. They also argued that the Constitution did not contain a bill of rights.