CLASS280 Lecture 15: Women, Children and Slaves
14 Aug 2015
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The household and family as a socio-economic unit. Also includes philoi" and xenoi", friends of the family. The matron governs the home and all its functions. The patron provides for the home and represents it externally. The co-operation between woman and man aims not merely an existence, but at a happy existence [aristotle, oeconomics 1343b 20] Male provides for the home externally because it is dangerous. Female is the absolute power in the oikos. Principle role was the care of the house. Calonice: it"s hard for women, you know, to get away. There"s so much to do; husbands to be patted and put in good tempers: servants to be poked out: children washed or soothed with lullabies or fed with mouthfuls of pap (aristoph. Calonice: we women who dwell quietly adorning ourselves in a back-room with gowns of lucid gold and gawdy toilets of stately silk and dainty little slippers .
