The Athenian government was not immune to tyranny either. By exerting their political influence, popular Athenian statesmen overrode the sovereignty of Athenian citizens, forcing the Athenian government to enact laws in their favor. In Professor Paul Cartledge's article “The Democratic Experiment,” Cartledge states: “To make it as participatory as possible, most of the officials and all of the jurors were selected by lot. This was thought to be the democratic way, since elections favored the rich, famous, and powerful over the common citizen (Cartledge, 2014).” It was for this very reason that the Athenian Empire met its end during the Peloponnesian War, forcing the city-states of ancient Greece to declare war on the tyrannical corruption of Athens. Indeed, the many different forms of Greek government have similarities and differences. . Aristocracy, for example, is very similar to oligarchy, in that both exercise their political power through an elite upper class. These two political forms are also similar to monarchy and tyranny, as both monarchy and tyranny possess elite forms of government. The only difference, however, is that monarchy and tyranny focus more on the rule of a single head of state, rather than a ruling class of