CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lysistrata, Thrasymachus, Nouveau Riche
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In athens, the dream of setanus existed with a relatively high degree of tolerance and difference. The athenians, despite all their rhetoric, had an extreme interest and an acceptance of the other. We have autothony and social homogenaiety on the one hand, metics are treated poorly, but on the other, theyre recognized as important. In the ideal world, as xenophon describes it, the man and woman work together to strengthen the oikos. The nature of democracy itself; kleon says all of ces should be paid for, pseudo- xenophon says democracy is terrible, and all these different people live side by side. Drama allows athenians to play the other. they often villify the other and denegrate it in order to build up the self (medea, lysistrata). Also, though, we use the other to expand the idea of what it means to be self; there are not only negative lessons to be learned from the other!
