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At vv. 335\u2013343 of the Lysistrata<\/em>, the semicorps of old women reports having heard that the old men (comprising the other semicorps) were planning to set fire to the entrance of the Acropolis, with the aim of forcing the women to surrender\u2014either by burning them or by suffocating them. The goddess Athena is then invoked, with the prayer that she preserve the gynaikes<\/em> unharmed, since they are the only ones capable of freeing both Greece and the politai<\/em> from the polemou maniai<\/em> (\u201cmadnesses of war\u201d). This opposition between gynaikes<\/em> and politai<\/em> demonstrates that the former were not automatically associated with the group of politai<\/em>\u2014a term which here clearly refers to males alone, afflicted by the polemou maniai<\/em> either as combatants or as supporters of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later, at vv. 1043\u20131050, when the two semicorps have been happily reunited and have resolved their quarrel, the chorus decides that they will no longer insult any among the politai<\/em>. In this instance, women are evidently included (since the old men are also speaking), but it is noteworthy that a few lines later the chorus explicitly specifies that it addresses both men and women\u2014further evidence that, for the play\u2019s audience, women were not automatically included among the politai<\/em>, a term with a more specifically institutional meaning and a clearly defined gendered connotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n At vv. 335\u2013343 of the Lysistrata, the semicorps of old women reports having heard that the old men (comprising the other semicorps) were planning to set fire to the entrance of the Acropolis, with the aim of forcing the women to surrender\u2014either by burning them or by suffocating them. The goddess Athena is then invoked, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,192,206,247],"tags":[261,272,288],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-449-400-bce","category-athenian-citizenship-2","category-lexicon-on-citizenship","category-literary-source","tag-athenian-citizenship-en","tag-citizenship-en","tag-women-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politeia.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}a. 335-343
XO\u03a1\u039f\u03a3 \u0393\u03a1\u0391\u03a9\u039d
335\t\u1f24\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03c4\u03c5\u03c6\u03bf\u03b3\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd-
\t\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f04\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f14\u03c1\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd, \u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03ad\u03c7\u03b7
\t\u03c6\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f65\u03c3\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1 \u03b2\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2
\t\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03b9\u03bd \u1f61\u03c2 \u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03b2\u03ac\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2,
\t\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03cc\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u2019 \u1f00\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u1ff6\u03bd,
340\t\u1f61\u03c2 \u03c0\u03c5\u03c1\u1f76 \u03c7\u03c1\u1f74 \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u03bc\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1\u03c1\u1f70\u03c2 \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u1fd6\u03ba\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd.
\t\u1f05\u03c2, \u1f66 \u03b8\u03b5\u03ac, \u03bc\u03ae \u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u2019 \u1f10\u03b3\u1f7c \u2019\u03bc\u03c0\u03b9\u03bc\u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f34\u03b4\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u03b9,
\t\u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03ad\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u1ff6\u03bd \u1fe5\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f19\u03bb\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03af\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2.\t
Chorus of Old
Women:
For I have heard that the doddering old men
are on the march, bearing logs
\u2014as if on their way to take a bath\u2014
weighing three talents apiece,
uttering the most dreadful threats in their words:
that these accursed women must be reduced to embers by fire.
O goddess, may I never behold them burning,
but rather rescuing Greece and the politai
from the madnesses of war.
b. 1043-1053
\t\u03a7\u039f\u03a1\u039f\u03a3
1043\/4\tO\u1f50 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03c5\u03b1\u03b6\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03bf\u1f50\u03b4\u03ad\u03bd\u2019, \u1f66\u03bd-
1045\t\u03b4\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2, \u03c6\u03bb\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03c0\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd \u03bf\u1f50\u03b4\u1f72 \u1f15\u03bd,
\t\t\u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u1f7a \u03c4\u03bf\u1f54\u03bc\u03c0\u03b1\u03bb\u03b9\u03bd
\t\t\u03c0\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u2019 \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03b8\u1f70 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03bb\u03ad\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd
\t\t\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b4\u03c1\u1fb6\u03bd\u00b7 \u1f31\u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u1f70 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u03c4\u1f70 \u03ba\u03b1\u03ba\u1f70
\t\t\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f70 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1,
1050a\t\u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u2019 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03bb\u03ad\u03c4\u03c9
1050b\t\u03c0\u1fb6\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u1f74\u03c1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ae,
\t\t\u03b5\u1f34 \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c1\u03b3\u03c5\u03c1\u03af\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd
\t\t\u03b4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd, \u03bc\u03bd\u1fb6\u03c2 \u1f22 \u03b4\u03cd\u2019 \u1f22
\t\t\u03c4\u03c1\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c2.
We are not preparing to say anything
ill of any among the politai, gentlemen,
but quite the contrary:
to speak and to do only what is good,
for the evils already at hand are more than enough.
Rather, let every man and every woman
proclaim if they are in need
of a small sum of silver\u2014
a mina or two, or three.
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