ὀλιγαρχία
oligarchia
oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families
Appears 199 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Politics 191 ▸
Open Politics › Book II 7 ▸
Chapter 6 1264b26–1266a30
Chapter 11 1272b24–1273b26
Chapter 12 1273b27–1274b28
Book III 17 ▸
Chapter 1 1274b32–1275b21
Chapter 7 1279a22–1279b10
Chapter 13 1283a23–1284b34
Chapter 15 1285b33–1286b40
Book IV 68 ▸
Chapter 1 1288b10–1289a25
Chapter 2 1289a26–1289b26
Chapter 3 1289b27–1290a29
Chapter 4 1290a30–1292a38
Chapter 5 1292a39–1292b21
Chapter 6 1292b22–1293a34
Chapter 7 1293a35–1293b21
Chapter 8 1293b22–1294a29
Chapter 9 1294a30–1294b41
Chapter 11 1295a25–1296b12
Chapter 12 1296b13–1297a13
Chapter 14 1297b35–1299a2
Chapter 15 1299a3–1300b12
Book V 83 ▸
Chapter 1 1301a19–1302a15
Chapter 4 1303b17–1304b18
Chapter 5 1304b19–1305a36
Chapter 6 1305a37–1306b21
Chapter 7 1306b22–1307b25
Chapter 8 1307b26–1309a32
Chapter 9 1309a33–1310a38
Chapter 10 1310a39–1313a14
Chapter 12 1315b11–1316b27
Book VI 14 ▸
Chapter 1 1316b31–1317a39
Chapter 2 1317a40–1318a10
Book VII 1 ▸
Chapter 9 1328b24–1329a39
Book VIII 1 ▸
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Rhetoric 4 ▸
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Nicomachean Ethics 3 ▸
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Eudemian Ethics 1 ▸
Dictionary (LSJ)
ὀλιγαρχία, Ion. -ιη IG 12(8).262.3 (Thasos, v B. C.), etc. : ἡ :—A. oligarchy, government in the hands of a few families or persons, Hdt. 3.82, 5.92.βʹ, etc. ; of the time of the Four Hundred, Th. 8.72 ; or of the Thirty, And. 1.99, Pl. Ap. 32c ; ἄκρατος ὀ. Arist. Pol. 1273b37, al., cf. Pl. R. 550c sq., Plt. 291e. 2. Ὀλιγαρχία, personified in a statue, Sch.Aeschin. 1.39.
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