Showing posts with label 1313b. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Aristotle on Woman leadership around Democracies

And what's around Democracy [Control by the People], 
however, engenders Final Tyranny for All [a Tyrant's Total Control]:

καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν δημοκρατίαν
δὲ γιγνόμενα τὴν τελευταίαν τυραννικὰ πάντα,

Control by Wives, 
particularly around the household

γυναικοκρατία
τε περὶ τὰς οἰκίας,

gives birth to reports 
against Husbands

ἵν᾽ ἐξαγγέλλωσι
κατὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν

and to undisciplined Slaves 
for this same reason.

καὶ δούλων ἄνεσις
διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν: 

Neither Slaves nor Wives, in fact, can turn on
Tyrannies.

οὔτε γὰρ ἐπιβουλεύουσιν οἱ δοῦλοι καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες
τοῖς τυράννοις,

They're just as much blessings to the days 
and necessarily blessings to the minds
of the Tyrannies
as they are to the Democracies.

ὐημεροῦντάς τε
ἀναγκαῖον εὔνους εἶναι
καὶ ταῖς τυραννίσι
καὶ ταῖς δημοκρατίαις: 

from the Politics (Bekker page 1313b, between and around lines 35 -40)