... sense. This method seems to be reductionalism. Chapter 2 is when Aristotle first compares people to animals, and states that the reasons he uses are all based in nature. He defines couples as people who come together out of necessity, and then gives two examples: men and women for procreation, and slave and owner for survival. Aristotle states that those who possess natural insight should rule those who ... use their body for labor, and that this relationship is beneficial to both. He goes on to agree with the poets who ... way a soul rules over a body. Aristotle also restates that men ...

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... being a wife to her husband but, to act as a slave would; according to the Greek philosopher, "she will serve him more assiduously than if she had been a slave bought and taken home" (Aristotle). In fact, Aristotle sometimes spoke of women in relation to slaves, as if they were in the same category: "...no distinction is made between ... women and slaves because there is no natural ruler among them" (Aristotle 4). The inequality shown towards women was expressed through the speeches and words of philosophers, but as well through theatrical performances. In the many Greek tragedies, wome...

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... the methods of infanticide. Some studies postulate that the average Greek family consisted of two boys and one girl, statistically an unnatural figure. Both Aristotle and Plato, famous Greek philosophers, suggested that the age of marriage be postponed thereby limiting the childbearing years for women. Then, if the number of children grew too large, the mothers were to abort the ... fetuses. But because of the desire to ensure male dominance, women were married off at an early age and a long childbearing ... femme fatales. The Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle continue...

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... believed that God had created women for this purpose and he also believed that since God had created the woman and had imposed on her the nourishment of the infants, he meted out to her a larger portion of affection for new-born babes than to the man." A woman in ancient Greek society had to produce children. Xenophon, Aristotle, and other great minds of the time ... thought "men and women are, by nature, provided with opposite faculties, which nevertheless provide for the "partnership" of the household. Men, for example, are naturally adapted for movement, while ... jobs they assumed ...

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... was developed by his pupils. This form, called the Socratic method or dialectic, was based on Socrates" question and answer method of arriving at some important truth. Socrates left no writings, but his ideas are preserved in writings of other Greeks, especially Plato. Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. The government of ancient Greece was also very ... complex and it set the stage for the way many of today's countries govern. In ancient Greece by the 700's BC, the ... , some city-states began to move toward democracy. All citiz...

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... , by way of an excerpt entitled "The Status of Women." Plato's ideas of women take a back seat to his own student who does not perceive women as equals. He begins by saying that there must be a coming together of those who cannot live without each other. Aristotle gives men and women as examples. This union of man and women is solely to continue the human race, as "mankind ... have natural desire to leave behind them an image of themselves"(Politics). Next, Aristotle says that with a coalition of two beings, there must be one ruler ... and one subject in order to survive. The ruler, or ...

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... . Some city-states began to move toward democracy. All citizens were granted the right to vote on government policies hold political office and serve on a jury. Many poor citizens could not afford the time to participate in democratic government. Women and slaves had no political rights, even in the democracies. The most successful democracy of ancient Greece was Athens. Every male Athenian citizen ... had the right to serve in an assembly. An assembly passed laws and determined government policies. Sparta was the only city state which had a full time ... the things that happened to the...

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... as matter, were absolute. He stated two levels of existence; the physical world of "shadows" and the real world of "ideas". Plato wanted a philosopher-king who would stress harmony and efficiency, as Plato did. Another philosopher, Aristotle, believed in a world of moderation and balance. He disagreed with Plato's two levels of existence. Instead, Aristotle said that all functions of the soul die with the body ... and that there is no afterlife. Aristotle also said that truth followed logically from other truths. One must reason ... was the Athenian government? It was democratic in the ...

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... main character, often a member of royalty, who strives to achieve something and is ultimately defeated."(Holt, 302) One of the most memorable tragedies is "Oedipus Rex." This opinion is supported in the statement: "The most famous ancient tragedies are probably the Oresteia of Aeschyles, Sophacles, Oedipus Rex and "Trojan Women" by Euripides. There are many characteristics that make up a tragedy, the most ... important being a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a "privileged and exalted character of high repute, who by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into sufferin...

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... stronger more willful souls than those who are meant to serve. As Aristotle stated: "the soul rules the body with the authority of a master," and that "the rule of the body by the soul, and the rule of the passionate part by the rational, is in accordance with nature and beneficial," and therefore they were justified in saying that the strong willed souls were intended ... the Greeks felt "a man naturally is strong of body, and capable of enduring the fatigue of heat and cold, of traveling and undergoing the harsher exercise; so that it seems as if nature had appointed him to look after...

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... seen as foreigners aloud to stay in the land. Social class was tied to wealth and not so political control, unless you were to have real clout. Men were the dominant race of Greece. Women considered citizens and were able to own land and go to court over land, but women did have much more limited rights than the men did. Life was based around ... trade, and places such as Athens would have many different events such as the Olympics, and Gladiator competitions. Athens boasted it would have major events every ... group of people, mainly because they were such an intelligent group of soci...

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... growth of a community held strong through times of plague, wars, and numerous breakthroughs. A major legacy left by classical Greece was a government based on direct democracy. With a direct democracy, citizens ruled by majority vote. The citizenship was expanded to all free males, except foreigners. Those not considered citizens were women, slaves, and all foreigners. In 621 b.c.e., Draco, an Athenian lawmaker, wrote ... the first legal code. In the legal code, Draco dealt with contract and property ownership. It also included debt slavery. In classical Greece, citizens were also allowe...

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... growth of a community held strong through times of plague, wars, and numerous breakthroughs. A major legacy left by classical Greece was a government based on direct democracy. With a direct democracy, citizens ruled by majority vote. The citizenship was expanded to all free males, except foreigners. Those not considered citizens were women, slaves, and all foreigners. In 621 b.c.e., Draco, an Athenian lawmaker, wrote ... the first legal code. In the legal code, Draco dealt with contract and property ownership. It also included debt slavery. In classical Greece, citizens were also allowe...

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... to leave the barracks at the age of thirty. The men weren't the only people that went through rigorous training. The women of Sparta were expected to produce healthy offspring, so they were trained to exercise and make themselves stronger. The women of Sparta could also inherit property since the men were either training or fighting a war. Just like all of the other ... Athens did not have such a rigorous lifestyle filled with physical training and the pressure of producing perfect children. Instead they were at home tending to the house and children. The women were not given any privil...

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... analysis of the spectators culturally defines a wider context of Ancient Greece's society's structure through the position of women. "The position of womenconstitutes one of the most interesting aspects of life in Greecethe seclusion of women was strictly observed (Spyridakis.,Nystrom., pg. 231)." Slaves and women, especially married ones, were strictly forbidden to watch the games (in2greece). It was so firmly enforced ... Women had very few rights and a distinct role in society. Their role gave them no freedom and received unequal, which emphasizes the Ancient Greece society as strong...

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... home. There were separate schools for general studies, music, and physical education. The main studies that the school taught were reading, writing, and arithmetic. The higher education of the children consisted of the study of law, medicine, philosophy, or rhetoric. Men and women wore a belted garment of linen or wool called a ... chiton, which means it hung to their knees, for the men, and hung to their ankles, for the women. In the cold weather, they would wear a cloak called a himation over their shoulders and arms. Many Greeks wore sandals. ... to achieve the ideal beauty of an obj...

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... of a community held strong through times of plague, wars, and numerous breakthroughs. A major legacy left by classical Greece was a government based on direct democracy. With a direct democracy, citizens ruled by majority vote. The citizenship was expanded to all free males, except foreigners. Those not considered citizens were women, slaves, and all foreigners. In 621 b.c.e., Draco, an Athenian lawmaker ... wrote the first legal code. In the legal code Draco dealt with contract and property ownership, it also included debt slavery. In classical Greece, citizens were also allowed to brin...

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... truth searching (Jowette). Socrates would challenge anyone with a pretense to knowledge. He philosophized by questioning one's beliefs. Socrates never claimed to teach and never sought out people to engage in discussion with. For Socrates, gaining knowledge was not accomplished by accepting an opinion because of its widespread ... that had ever viewed a good life as the abandonment of material possessions and the yearning for virtue; in fact it took nearly fifteen hundred years before anyone could follow up and expand on his works (Plato and Aristotle could grasp but not expand). To use ...

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