Athenian coup of 411 BC state of Athens remained an anomaly, however, as the rest of the Greek city states were run either as tyrannies or, most often, by oligarchies. Both Thucydides and Aristotle wrote that "the revolution was provoked by defeat in Sicily." Despite the democracy in Athens, Greek tradition remained aristocratic, and the works of Homer celebrated an aristocratic world view, where the nobles made decisions and the commoners obeyed. The poems of Theognis of Megara (from the sixth century BC) and the Theban poet Pindar (of the fifth century BC) were popular among the Athenian nobles at this time, casting democracy as
Pan Yue (poet) of Jin" had this to write about Pan Yue's looks: His most famous works are his three poems to his dead wife. Pan Yue (poet) Pan Yue (; 247–300), courtesy name "Anren" (安仁), was a prominent Chinese "fu" poet in the Western Jin dynasty. He is popularly referred to as Pan An (潘安) and was well known for his good looks from a young age. "Pan An" has become the Chinese byword for handsome men. Pan's family was from Zhongmou (modern Zhongmu County, Henan). His grandfather Pan Jin () was a governor of Anping (modern Jizhou, Hebei) during the Eastern