... 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 ... not possible. From the fifth to the third century b.c.e. women's power in politics increased when the kingship became more dictatorial or despotic. Then as more wars occurred in the third century b.c.e., women had even m...

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... . In that lies Socrates's fatal oversight. He dealt with reason and assumed people were reasonable; however, reason rarely guides politics. The mockery of his teaching, as portrayed in the allegories of the day, wasn't aimed at embarrassing him. The jury pool was being tainted. Socrates had the Sophists trying their hardest to keep him silent, he had playwrights casting a gloomy shadow over his reputation, and every ... 14). He never professed to being a teacher, but he was the only person in the world that had ever viewed a good life as the abandonment of material possessions and the ye...

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