“...The reading approach proposed here takes into account not only the historical and institutional information related to governance but also that which comes from what I have long referred to as a neighboring approach.

Aristotle, as well as others, resort to such indirect sources, even poetic ones. Just as Thucydides equally does. Without dismissing the direct, frontal observation of political phenomena, they seek to verify or to rectify the apparent impressions, resorting also to other, different contributions, literary and even musical...”.Author, Conclusion, Introductory note: Anastasios - Ioannis D. Metaxas