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Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59

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The City Should Be Handed Over to Women

Pale man said, the city should be handed over to women. And why? Well, not so much because of the skills, but especially because of the virt So this handsome young guy a goes on about women being intelligent and discreet and very thrifty and, above all, just a now the funny thing is is that when cremmes reports what the assembly decided to do, he doesn't say that it was because of their virtue. What he says is, well, the city has never tried this before, so maybe were at least invited to raise the question of whether pracagora is correct in her summary of these virtues. But by the time prexagora is defending

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