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Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59

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Equality in Ancient Society

Equality is aradical. It's an improvement in their condition. Whereas anybody who's in a superior position is not going to favor equality because it's a a worse condition. So if your situation, and especially in ancient society, is that you have less power, less money, less control, i think you're going to gravitate toward equality. Noyant erthe al, we had to sta in lurid detail. O w ne to womans spleen. And so you get then yewill trainteles on s using, by the way, just for the audience, we're using the mayhew translation.

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