OtrOs derechOs pOlíticOs: ciudadanas y ciudadanOs en la atenas clásica* ...
The modern concept of political rights did not apply to Greek antiquity. But the notion did exist as, for example, in the phrase "arkhaì politikaí" used by Aristoteles that includes right to participate in assemblies (arkhè bouleutiké) and in courts (arkhè kritiké). Athenian women are excl...
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Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Derecho. Departamento de Publicaciones
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | http://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=juridica&cl=CL1&d=HWA_3919 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/collect/juridica/index/assoc/HWA_3919.dir/3919.PDF |
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| Sumario: | The modern concept of political rights did not apply to Greek antiquity. But the notion did exist as, for example, in the phrase "arkhaì politikaí" used by Aristoteles that includes right to participate in assemblies (arkhè bouleutiké) and in courts (arkhè kritiké). Athenian women are excluded of this participation. The question we have to ask is whether the participation of free women in the community and in public affairs is political. I propose to discuss the words ancient Greeks employed when they spoke of citizens and citizenship. We can also consider the words Athenian orators employed to bar "bad people" from "political activity". I will indicate how the male/female differentiation operated in these different linguistic practices. So, the point is to understand what politics, as we know it today, meant for ancient Greeks at that time and how different it was from our present day conception. In underlining the differences we might be able to understand how other societies - like the ancient Greek one - should be understood without anachronistic lenses. In a way, putting women back into the question helps us to understand that Greeks had indeed a very different concept of citizenship and of political rights. Aristotle's restrictive definition of arkhaì politikaí does not exactly match with oratory depictions of citizenship. Citizenship is not only a question of arkhè bouleutiké and arkhè kritiké. It is mostly a matter of timai, and both male and female citizens are concerned with timai. |
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