50/50? Marriage, Gender, and Reciprocity in Xenophons Oeconomicus Agenda Art, Concluded Sexual Values, a Democratic Transformation?
Xenophons Oeconomicus Introduction Sequestration of the Sexes Sex and the Married Woman
Actuality or Social Fiction? Do/How do eros and Marriage Mix? (Un)equal Partnership? 2013-10-09 Marriage and Gender Roles in Oeconomicus
Xenophon's Oeconomicus 2 Art, Concluded Sexual Values, a Democratic Transformation? Inside of Attic Red Figure drinking cup (kylix): man/woman sexual congress. (Man says, Keep quiet! or Keep still!) h numph kal, The bride is beautiful.
Timodmos kalos, Timodemos is handsome. Attic Red Figure alabastron Cantarella, Eva. Bisexuality in the Ancient World. Trans. Cormac O'Cuilleanain. 2 ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Print. Dover, K. J. Greek Homosexuality. 2 ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1989. Hubbard, Thomas K. Popular Perceptions of Elite Homosexuality in Classical Athens. Arion 6 (1998): 4878. [Reconsideration of Dover, Foucault, Halperin.] Sutton, Robert F. Pornography and Persuasion on Attic Pottery.
Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome. Ed. Amy Richlin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 3 35. Xenophons Oeconomicus Introduction Text/Author Facts Xenophon the Athenian ca. 430 to ca. 349 BCE
Oeconomicus Socratic dialogue themes kalokagathia enkrateia oikonomia For For Xenophon, Xenophon, Ps-Demosthenes:
Ps-Demosthenes: Foucault, Foucault, Michel. Michel. Part Part Three. Three. Economics. Economics. Trans. Trans. Robert Robert Hurley. Hurley. The The History History of
of Sexuality. Sexuality. Volume Volume 2: 2: The The Use Use of of Pleasure. Pleasure. New New York: York: Pantheon Pantheon Books,
Books, 1978. 1978. 14184. 14184. Print. Print. kosmos 2013-10-09 Xenophon's Oeconomicus 9
Sequestration of the Sexes Actuality or Social Fiction? I pointed out to her also the situation of the apartment for the females, separated from that of the men by a door fastened with a bolt, that nothing improper may be taken out, and that the servants may not have children without our knowledge... (Oeconomicus p. 109) Greek House: Abdera, Thrace (300s BCE)
Abdera Athens entrance Nevett, Lisa C. House and Society in the Ancient Greek World. New studies in Archaeology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. andron
Greek House (oikia), Olynthus, 4th cent. BCE (reconstruction) Sex and the Married Woman Do/How do eros and Marriage Mix? Two Quotes We [Athenian men] have prostitutes for the sake of pleasure, concubines for meeting our bodily needs day-to-day, but wives for having legitimate children (Against Neaera p. 191)
Seeing her painted over that she might appear still fairer than she really was, Tell me, said I, should I seem, as an intimate associate, more worthy of your love, if I should take care that it be healthy and strong, or if I should paint myself with vermilion? * (Oec. p. 112) ** Larger Larger context
context has has to to do do with with sharing sharing of of bodies, bodies, i.e., i.e., to to sex. sex. 2013-10-09
Xenophon's Oeconomicus 15 (Un)equal Partnership? Marriage and Gender Roles in Oeconomicus Quotes is there any one to whom you intrust a greater number of important affairs than to your wife? And is there any one with whom you hold fewer discussions? (Socrates to Critobulus, p. 84) The law, too, gives its approbation ; and as the
divinity has made them partners in their offspring, so the law ordains them to be sharers (koinonoi) in household affairs (Ischomachus, p. 100) Question Is there an ideology (Butler would call it a script) of partnership or parity in Ischomachus house? Of inequality? Speech acts validating same?
