From Hesiod to Xenophon: the experience of marriage. Stereotype, education and politics

• Autor(a) principal: Colombani, María Cecilia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i18.30962

This article will analyze anthropologically and philosophically the relations between education and politics in regards to the pedagogical task of forming a good wife, due to the damage that a bad wife can represent in the socio-symbolic model embodied in Pandora. She, as a punishment ordered by the father of all men and all gods, signifies in the ancient world a form of Otherness. She is an example of Otherness due to her undesirable and threatening behavior, a source of danger, while reflecting with her presence, the invulnerability of Zeus who sends her for the suffering of men in response to the insolence of Prometheus.Our reading proposal shifts the gaze towards the Sameness-Otherness tension, to approach certain figures or spaces of mythical thought that constitute the face of the Same and the Other in the archaic world, with the subsequent symbolic resonances in the construction of social stereotypes of Classical Greece.Likewise, we will review the educational proposal of the Economic, based on the dialogue between the husband and the wife, according to the own conversation that Iscomachus enters into with Socrates within the work of Xenophon. For this, we have chosen certain passages where the dialogical dimension constitutes a fundamental part of the educational device, which is at the same time political since it is about subjectively shaping the stereotype of the good wife.