d these acts because the pressure of excellence. "The well-being of the state depends on their achieving their own specific excellence, but that excellence or virtue is defined in relation to the male who direct them and whose interests they serve," (Sterba 80). I think Aristotle to be correct, because of certain kinds of social pressures, you are only to serve the culture to which you honor traditions. To maintain excellence within the family, a woman's silence is thought to be ideal. This is the first progressive step Cole has taken is expunging the truth of social and political pressure of this cultural ideology.The second step is Cole's exposure of Aristotle's collective view of women, is represented by the social society and how it demanded that women work. "In the Rhetoric, Aristotle describes women's virtues as being twofold: "... In body, beauty and stature; in soul, self-command and an industry that is not sordid," (Sterba 80). Better translated to mean, women take great joy in hard work and have self-command, a basic Greek virtue. Why is Aristotle saying that women love to be slaves of hard work, but then contradicts himself to say that women show great initiative? According to ancient times, women and hard work have been imbedded in the classic Greek ideology. As mentioned before that man's job is to show off the families/households excellence, well that excellence is being produced in the foreground by a woman or a slave. No man of this time period would be as eager to admit that what all is done to make his family succeed is his wife and slaves.Women understandably do not have freewill to work outside the home or to converse with others in the town square, like most males. Cole's account of Euripides, Trojan Women, "Hardworking and productive of a large number of children, she deprives herself of female companionship in order to more efficiently serve "his property," (Sterba 81). If this was the case today, and ...
