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- From: dsmither@superior.carleton.ca (Diane Smithers)
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- Subject: Ancient Greece (was re: feminism (and was re: something or other else)
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:43:41 GMT
- References: <86629@ut-emx.uucp> <1k3fopINNajt@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <zlsiida.857@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <1993Jan27.172148.5161@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In <1993Jan27.172148.5161@samba.oit.unc.edu> James.Rogers@launchpad.unc.edu (James Edward Rogers) writes:
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- >In article <zlsiida.857@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
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- >>>Read Lysistrata( not quite sure of the spelling).
- >>
- >>>It shows how women can control men.... It was written in xxx B.C.
- >>
- >>Lemme guess, which sex was the author?
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- >The author, in case anyone doesn't know, was Aristophanes, a male, naturally,
- >because women of ancient Athens didn't have citizenship. Interestingly
- >hypocritical, (like some people think of Bill Clinton #:) ) That was not
- >really a smiley. Anyway, the plot is this: correct me if I'm wrong, people.
- >Athens and Sparta are at war. The women are sick of it. So they refuse
- >to have sex with their husbands until they make peace. Eventually the men
- >are so horny they make peace.
- >This is called PROGRESS?
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- Hmmm ... as I understood it, the military sector in ancient Greece was
- a place where the social reproduction of male culture occurred, and
- where there was structured homosexuality. Why would the men be so horny?
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- Diane
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