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{{Quote|"If, as has been said earlier, the position of [Spartan] women is wrong, not only does it look like a blot on the constitution in itself, but it seems to contribute some thing to the greed for money; for one might go on next to attack the Spartan inequality of property-ownership."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, II, IX, 1270a11.}} | {{Quote|"If, as has been said earlier, the position of [Spartan] women is wrong, not only does it look like a blot on the constitution in itself, but it seems to contribute some thing to the greed for money; for one might go on next to attack the Spartan inequality of property-ownership."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, II, IX, 1270a11.}} | ||
{{Quote|"The features of extreme democracy are also all characteristic of a tyrant's policy: the dominance of women in the home, and slack control of slaves. The reason for both features is the same. Tyrants expect in this way to get information against the men, for women and slaves do not plot against tyrants: keep them satisfied and they must always be supports of tyrannies—and of democracies too, for the people likes to be the sole ruler."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, V, XI, 1313b32-34.}} | {{Quote|"The features of extreme democracy are also all characteristic of a tyrant's policy: the dominance of women in the home, and slack control of slaves. The reason for both features is the same. Tyrants expect in this way to get information against the men, for women and slaves do not plot against tyrants: keep them satisfied and they must always be supports of tyrannies—and of democracies too, for the people likes to be the sole ruler."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, V, XI, 1313b32-34.}} | ||
{{Quote|"It is also more conductive to restraint that daughters should be no longer young when their fathers bestow them in marriage, because it seems that women who have sexual intercourse at an early age are more likely to be dissolute. [...] Accordingly, we conclude that the appropriate age for the union is about the eighteenth year for girls and for men the thirty-seventh. With such timing, their union will take place when they are physically in their prime, and it will bring them down together to the end of procreation at exactly the right moment for both."|Arist., ''Politica'', trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, VII, XVI, 1335a12-15}} | |||
==Circa 300 BC-400 AD: The Jataka Tales== | ==Circa 300 BC-400 AD: The Jataka Tales== | ||