aeschines’ against timarchus
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Aeschines’ Against Timarchus. Is Timarchus “Gay”?. Demosthenes. Timarchus’ “Crime ”: Resonates Today?. Timarchus “guilty ” because: “… the man who has made traffic of the shame of his own body, [is] ready to sell the common interests of the city also” (29). Does That Resonate Today?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Aeschines’ Against Timarchus
Is Timarchus “Gay”?
Demosthenes
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Timarchus “guilty” because:“… the man who has made traffic of
the shame of his own body, [is] ready to sell the common interests of the
city also” (29)
Timarchus’ “Crime”: Resonates Today?
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Does That Resonate Today? we punish people for
their private lives we’d expect an
explanation/apology we’re also very
forgiving past/present: people
care about if their being lied to sincerity thing
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AgendaPaper Chase
Academic HonestyRecap
Foucault and PederastyAeschines’ Against Timarchus
Speech and IdeologiesAdventures in Critical Thinking
Is ____ “gay”?
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Paper Chase
Academic Honesty
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Recap
Foucault and Pederasty
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Vocabulary of Pederasty…affect eros epithumia philiaactors erastes eromenos
paidika kalos k’agathos kinaidos
euruproktos katapugon
values sophrosune v. akolasia enkrateia v. akrasia andreia v. malakia
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Rooster gift(Attic RF)
ho pais kalos,“the boy is attractive”
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Aeschines’ Against TimarchusSpeech and Ideologies
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Speech: Analysis Introduction (1-6)
Democracy and law Laws (7-36)
Various legislation Dokimasia rhētorōn
Narration (37-70)
Timarchus’ sexual career financial mismanagement
Proofs (71-192), including… erōs dikaios (“just lust”) v.
porneia (“prostitution”) Conclusion (193-196)
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Dokimasia rhētorōn
Sanctioned act: assembly speech +Parental abuseMilitary derelictionSelf-prostitution Inheritance squandering
Process: jury trialPenalty: loss of political rights
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“… the man who has made traffic of the shame of his own
body, [is] ready to sell the common interests of the city
also” (29)
(Alleged) Rationale
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“Sexual-Social Isomorphism” Cont’d
masculine ~ femininemoderate (sōphrōn) ~ immoderate (akolastos)
chaste beloved ~ whore (pornos)hero ~ coward
thrifty ~ spendthriftpatriot ~ traitor
aka “asymmetry hypothesis”
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Sin?
“… on the one side men who have been loved with a chaste love, and on the other men who sin against
themselves…” (156)
sōphrosunē versus hamartia
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Adventures in Critical ThinkingIs ____ “gay”?
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Misgolas
“He is bent on that sort of thing [pederasty] like one possessed,
and is accustomed always to have about him [male] singers or
cithara-players” (41)
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Timarchus
“Timarchus was … just the person for the thing that Misgolas wanted to do, and Timarchus wanted to have done.” (41)
“What shall we say when a young man … keeps the most expensive flutegirls and
harlots? When he gambles and pays nothing himself but another man always
pays for him?” (75)