Before revision: Differentiation In contrast to its original conceptual drawing in classical antiquity, aristocracy has been associated in the modern era with its more general and degenerated form of oligarchy, specifically an aristocracy class based oligarchy , with entitled nobility as in monarchies or aristocratic merchant republics.
After revision: Differentiation In contrast to its original conceptual drawing in classical antiquity, aristocracy is not in modern times understood in opposition to oligarchy or strictly as a form of governmentby Aristotle , with entitled nobility as in monarchies or aristocratic merchant republics.