古希腊男权社会对女人的歧视是个不争的事实,
尽管柏拉图在《理想国》中提出女人也有受教育的权利,但他终归认为男人优于女人。亚里士多德对女子歧视的言论比比皆是
There is no doubt that Aristotle's texts are misogynist; he thought that women were inferior to men and he said so explicitly. For example, to cite Cynthia Freeland's catalogue: "Aristotle says that the courage of a man lies in commanding, a woman's lies in obeying; that "matter yearns for form, as the female for the male and the ugly for the beautiful;" that women have fewer teeth than men; that a female is an incomplete male or "as it were, a deformity": which contributes only matter and not form to the generation of offspring; that in general "a woman is perhaps an inferior being"; that female characters in a tragedy will be inappropriate if they are too brave or too clever"(Freeland 1994: 145-46). However dispiriting or annoying this litany is, and whatever problems it presents to a woman studying or teaching Aristotle, it can be argued that Aristotle simply held a mistaken view about women and their capacities (as did most Athenians of his time
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-femhist/#Mis
非常希望读到你认为古希腊男女平等意识的证据。
谢谢阅评。