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Headword:
Kleisthenês
Adler number: kappa,1757
Translated headword: Kleisthenes, Clisthenes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sophocles[1] [writes]: "and how might it become a well-ordered polis, where a god born as a woman stands in full body armour -- and Kleisthenes [stands] with a weaver's shuttle?"[2] For Kleisthenes was attacked as effeminate.[3]
Greek Original:Kleisthenês: Sophoklês: kai pôs an eti genoit' eutaktos polis, hopou theos gunê gegonuia panoplian hestêk' echôn, Kleisthenês de kerkida; hôs gunaikôdês gar diebeblêto Kleisthenês.
Notes:
[1] A mistake for '
Aristophanes': see next note
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 827-829: Athena in male garb is contrasted with Kleisthenes [see next note] in an effeminate occupation.
[3] On this Kleisthenes see also
kappa 1756,
kappa 1758,
theta 381,
kappa 2171,
pi 3070,
epsilon 2021,
beta 288,
sigma 1271,
sigma 1186,
omicron 978. Kleisthenes son of Sibyrtios was a
theoros, and a recurring butt of
Aristophanes' jokes (
Acharnians 117,
Clouds 354,
Thesmophoriazusae 574). He is to be contrasted with the reformer who introduced democracy to
Athens in 508 BCE.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 30 November 2008@23:41:36.
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