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Upon the first notion of "equal rights", I would historicise the context of equality to being something "constitutional" (as Aristotle speaks of in the 4th century BCE, where he makes a distinction between a wife and a slave, whether she be a maid-servant or a male). The wife differs from the maiden by the contract of marriage, which in monogamous societies, advances from the polygamous (for example, the Old Testament features polygamy in the prophets yet in the New Testament, Jesus commands monogamy, such that in marriage "two become one flesh"). We also see the dynamics of marriage in the Greek Myths, like Homer's Iliad (800 BCE), where Zeus suffers the nagging of his wife Hera, and so seeks to appease her. Here, the almighty is limited in his power by loyalty in marriage, making his options adultery, which reak havoc upon the adulteress. Thus, the wife shares the power of the patriarch and monogamy is a regulation upon his power. Thus, rather than marriage being a mere relationship of property (e.g. the father "giving away" his daughter to a new master), the wife is immediately empowered, and the man is disempowered. So then, the first act of gender equality is the ancient rite of marriage.
We also see in the Iliad, where Agamemnon offers gifts to Achilles, he gives the offering of a wife, and concubines, as though there is no contradiction in the contract. Thus, the Wife is not simply a gendered position, but a class position, which is superior to the sex-object. Further readings upon the relative power of the wife we may read in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" (115 CE):
<Discoursing on the power of women, he said: “All other men rule their wives; we rule all other men, and our wives rule us.” This, however, is a translation from the sayings of Themistocles. He, finding himself much under his son’s orders through the lad’s mother, said: “Wife, the Athenians rule the Hellenes, I rule the Athenians, thou rulest me, and thy son thee. Therefore let him make sparing use of that authority which makes him, child though he is, the most powerful of the Hellenes.”https://lexundria.com/plut_cat_ma/8/prr#t8Thus, the father and husband becomes an victim of the nagging wife and pleading child. The wife is not a tortured slave of male passion, but an equ
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