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
Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews scholarship into people". Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews () was first published in 1978 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. According to S. Lillian Kremer in "Dictionary of Literary Biography", The book is "a compendium of scholarship about Jewish civilization and its relation to the myriad cultures with which Judaism has come into contact." This monograph is divided into four sections with each comprising various chapters: Through Ancient Paganism (Sumer, Egypt, Canaan, Babylonia), Through Classical Paganism (Greece, Rome, Palestine), Through Islam and Christianity (Islam, Christianity), Inside Modern Paganism (Secularism). "School Library