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Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59

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Is This a Woman? And Why Would One Throw Dice?

Praxagora says, in her mind, you don't need money, so why would you gamble? Right? But there's a certain thrill to gambling. There's some attraction to risk taking. That was one of the only sort of oblique references in this entire play to something like a concern for something beyond one's own good. I'm still trying to figure how m swis goin these young days as mao lel. Then then sit, sit back and listen, alex, and maybe you'll learn something.

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