it must be eusunoptos, like an Aristotelian city-state. As Aristotle thought[7] that no community of civilized men under a single government could exceed in size the number of citizens that could be within earshot of a single herald, the dimensions of the political organism being thus limited by a purely physical fact, so the Greek theory of history implies that no historical narrative could exceed in length the years of a man’s lifetime, within which alone the critical methods at its disposal could be applied.
