ENGL 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Phylarch, Slavery In Ancient Rome, Honest Pleasure
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Geography of utopia: island 200 niles wide and slowly tappers. Bay 11 miles wide: the bay is hard to enter, making it cut off to foreigners. The other harbors are rugged: good defense, 54 cities. Can walk between them in a day. At least 12 miles of farmland around them in every direction: the 3 oldest and wisest citizen from each city go to the capital every year to discuss laws. Their of cials: every year each 30 households elect a phylarch. In every 10 phylarch there is a head phylarch. Their occupations: everyone works with agriculture. In school they learn the theory of agriculture: go on eld trips to local farms, each person is taught a serrate speci c trade. Children are taught their parents crafts: can be adopted" to another family to learn a different skill, no one is allowed to sit around in idleness.
