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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (72112)8/8/2003 3:32:31 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
I don't know. The "ideals" embraced by the ancients are hard to get at. Look at the play Anitgone. I can't really understand making yourself a corpse to bury a corpse. Now was that something the people that Sophocles' time would agree with? Or was it something Sophocles thought they should agree with, and thus put in his play? I don't know.

I don't know how thrilled the Spartan women were about anything. But the dancing figures portraying them gave a sense of vitality and freedom that most other portrayals of women do NOT have- until you get to very modern art. Does it matter if they had a relationship with their offspring? Upper class Englishmen and women didn't have a relationship with their children either- not to mention many other cultures.

Your argument was that a society that was all gay wouldn't work. I merely asserted that many things work. Whether we would approve of them or not, or whether we think them "good" or not, doesn't really matter. The only point I was making was workability.
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