Both Thucydides and Aristotle have a more positive appraisal of democracy than Plato. What are the benefits of a democratic constitution according to these two thinkers? How are their appraisals of democracy similar or different? Who, in your opinion, makes a better case in favor of democracy as a political system? Why? Hint: You should refer to Pericles’s “Funeral Oration” and Aristotle’s discussion of democracy in The Politics.