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Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59

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Praxagora and the Women's Politics of the Female Sex

Is there a teaching about the polt politiciation of the female sex that aristophely brings out in these three texts? Well, here m strauss has a nice observation. Praxagora doesn't make any religious changes am, whereas you see in the republic, clearly plato does. So it seems like the woman doesn't even take seriously his absurd claim that the gods don't exist.

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