“The five-hundred-bushelers… were on average five, at most ten, times as rich as the thetes, the lowest grade of citizen. …Today, the gap between, say, a municipal bus driver and a Fortune 500 CEO approaches infinity.”

— Thomas Cahill

Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.IV The Politician and the Playwright: How to Rule

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American scholar and writer 1940

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