Aristocracy is a term that comes from Greek.
 The term derives from the Greek:  (aristokrat), meaning 'rule of the best'
 Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Spartans considered aristocracy (the ideal form of rule by the few) to be inherently better than the ideal form of rule by the many (democracy), but they also considered the corrupted form of aristocracy (oligarchy) to be worse than the corrupted form of democracy (mob rule)

