How Xenophon’s Oeconomicus is a Response to Aristophanes’ Clouds

The important work of Xenophon's Oeconomicus to deal with the Aristophanes cloud has been written for over the past decades, starting with a book on the magical dialogue of Leo Strauss. Despite the obvious relationship between the two pieces and the relation between Xenophon's art and his hero, fertile economists are getting more results to help us. Understand its consistency better. Conversation with Xenophon 's thought.

Xenophon's Oeconomicus L & F 267 will be the main focus of class discussion. According to Xenophon, what is the role of women in Oikos? Where is her authority? What are the factors that affect her in family decisions? By the way, this is a very free way to write about Xenophon about Sparta. Have you seen traces of this view in his economics? The Spartans obviously have a social structure in which the group seems to be more important than an individual. Both ancient and modern historians believe that this is an important reason for the relative freedom of Sparta women. What are the main arguments for establishing this relationship between collective privilege and women's liberty?

Our early existing resources - and the only thing that can claim to know Socrates in the early days - are playwright Aristophanes. His comedy "Cloud" was made in 423 when two of our other existing writers, Xenophon and Plato were babies. In the play, Character Socrates is leading Think-o-Rama. Where young people study nature from insects to stars and study smooth tactics not respecting Athens. An actor wearing a Socrates mask went on later, imitated by a young master and teased traditional Athenian gods (lines 247-48, 367, 423-24), and Athens considered sacred (Paragraph 227-) 33; Theaetetus 152e, 153c-d, 173e-174a; Phaedo 96a-100a). Above and above all, he taught fraudulent techniques to avoid repaying debts (lines 1214-1302) and encourages young people to beat their parents (lines 1408-46).

Plato (427-347 BC) was one of the greatest admirers of Socrates. Our understanding about Socrates was mainly due to Plato's dialogue (other views, sarcastic performance in Aristopanes cloud and Xenophon's work) Born in a famous Athens family, Plato is political I was supposed to be involved in my career. However, the short-lived Spartans pressed tyranny of thirty tyrants (404-403), the trial and execution of his leader Socrates was bored with the political life of Athens devoted to teaching and philosophy of Plato . Inquiries For this purpose, he established a university around 385 BC and counted Aristotle among his students. The university somehow continued for a total of 912 years until the year 527 AD, and served as a prototype for the Western University system.