348 bce), but even in Plato’s time the expression was not self-explanatory. There was a king in Macedonia in addition to a king in Persia, but the two societies, and for that reason their institutions, were being radically different. To give actual meaning to the phrase monarchy In a standard https://www.diigo.com/item/note/aw0y1/16sh?k=93512e91f2c39c7080d1f1ae5fa6ef70