CLA219H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Gaius Musonius Rufus, Theophrastus, Boeotia
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The female role; athens 4th century bc: aristotle"s politics. And quote we may observe in living creatures both a despotic and constitutional rule; for the sole rules the body with a despotic rule; whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. The same holds good of animals as well as of men; for tame animals have a better nature than wild and all tame animals are better off when ruled my man; for then they are preserved. Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle of necessity extends to all mankind. Of household management there are 3 parts: the rule of master over slaves, the rule of father over children/wife, the rule of a husband. A father rules both over wife and children; but the rule differs.
