5 Matching Annotations
- Feb 2024
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pressbooks.online.ucf.edu pressbooks.online.ucf.edu
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ou wicked women, cease from juggling lies. You want your men. But what of them as well? They toss as sleepless in the lonely night, I’m sure of it. Hold out awhile, hold out, But persevere a teeny-weeny longer. An oracle has promised Victory
By refusing sexual connection, Lysistrata directs an unconventional attempt among women to put a stop to the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata threatens gender norms by making us wonder who actually holds the power and what happens when the conventional is no longer seen as such. Consider the possible disruption of existing power systems and the social consequences of her scheme in a time period such as this where men obtained what seems as totalitarian power in comparison to woman.
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- Mar 2023
- Jun 2022
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
- Sep 2018
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www-jstor-org.proxy.library.georgetown.edu www-jstor-org.proxy.library.georgetown.edu
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e. Rhetoric is the counterpart of cookery, Socrates says, for just as cookery provides pleasure for the body with no regard for what truly benefits it, rhetoric gratifies the soul without considering its good. Consequently, rhetoric is ignoble flattery rather than art, both because it aims at the pleasant and also because it cannot give a rational account of its own activity.
Rhetoric as bad.
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He wants to learn, in other words, how to "make the weaker argument the stronger" (Clouds, 112-115
Rhetoric as slick
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