According to Wiles, "the masks of Old Comedy, Aristotle tells us, are necessarily "ugly and distorted, while causing no pain to the spectator"" (Wiles 68). ... In Aristotelian thinking, the women were considered cold and wet. ... The younger women are distinguished more by hairstyle than by physical traits. ... Similarly, the courtesan women had many different distinctions and hairstyles. ... The young women in old and new theater are hard to distinguish other than the fact that, just as the young men in the new theater, the women had an "intermediate" quality. ...

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Non-citizens were women and slaves. ... All citizens have the right to vote, but women and slaves have no political rights. ... 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. ... The most important philosophers were Socrates, Pluto, and Aristotle. ...

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