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When we conjure up ancient philosophers the image that springs to mind might be a bald Socrates discoursing with beautiful young men in the sun, or a scholarly Aristotle lecturing among cool columns.
But what about Aspasia, the foreign mistress of the foremost politician in Athens who gave both political and erotic advice? Or Sosipatra, mystic, mother and Neoplatonist who was a more popular teacher than her husband, Eustathius?
Women also shaped the development of philosophy. Although their writings, by and large do not survive, their verbal teaching made a significant impact on their contemporaries, and their voices echo through the ages.
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ABSTRACT: Though considered the most
democratic method of allocating citizens to office in Classical Greece,
sortition (selection by lot) has never been adopted on a large scale by modern
democracies (except for juries) and has fallen into oblivion. Recently,
however, some political theorists, motivated by deep disappointment with
current electoral practices, have been advocating a return to sortition without
being sufficiently aware of the complexities involved in their ancient Athenian
model. This study tries to explain the roots and ideology of sortition, the
ways in which it operated in Athens and the causes of its functional success
there for almost two centuries. Proposals of returning to a similar system
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