doulocracy

(duːˈlɒkrəsɪ)

n, pl -cracies

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a government by slaves

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doulocracy, dulocracy

Rare. a government controlled by slaves.

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Edwards 104, in an article that considers how Bakhtin's notion of the popular grotesque identifies a stance coopted by the elite in Attic Old Comedy, notes that Aristophanes denigrates the demos as a "doulocracy or republic of tradesmen," which suggests a connection between this prandial attitude and the barterer-both aspects of the Odyssean character type.

Odysseus, ingestive rhetoric, and Euripides' Cyclops

the position of the very slaves was so influential that the Seminole nation might present to students of political science an interesting and perhaps almost unique example of a very close approach to a doulocracy, or government by slaves.