The Power of Brevity

     Francis M. Cornford is impressing me more and more.  He writes, in Thucidydes Mythistoricus: "The unknown author of the tract On the Athenian Constitution tells us in a few pages more about the Athenian Demos than we shall find in the whole of Thucydides".  Here is a link to the two-three page On the Athenian Constitution.