In basic terms, Aristotle may be trying to persuade us that a society like Sparta cannot survive if it is ruled by women instead of men, for after all, women are "useless" and are second-rate when compared to men. Perhaps Aristotle should have considered the possibility that if the Spartan men had not been so militarily aggressive toward their neighbors and instead stayed at home with their wives as proper fathers and guardians, Spartan society might have survived to eventually rival the city of Athens as one of the homes of Western democracy.
ENDNOTES
1 Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, 68.
2 Ibid, 69.
3 Fitzhardinge, L.F. The Spartans. London: Constable, 2001, 56.
4 Ibid,...
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