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You are listening to the partial examinat life podcast by some guys who have one point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 188 is something like what's the relation between the erotic and the political?

We read Jeffrey Henderson's 1988 translation of the play, Liza Strata, first performed in 411BC. For more information, please check out partialexaminalife.com.

This is Mark Linton Meyer, broadcasting to the polis from my oikos in Madison, Wisconsin.

Oh god, I was going to say something just like that. This is Wes AllOne in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey in Madison, Wisconsin.

This Liza Ellis always with holding sex, but never as you may. And this is Emily Perkins.

And I was going to say superimposing the oikos on the polis in game.

Very good. That's good. That's different.

As we've seen, well, so yeah, we read the play. That's all we had to read. We did pick two articles, reviewed several and discarded most of them as being too obscure, but we'll put up links to J.M. Semmel's sexual humor and harmony in Liza Strata from 1981.

And Helene P. Foley's the female intruder, reconsidered women and Aristophanes as Liza Strata and another thing from 1982.

And also Jeffrey Henderson's introduction was very helpful that we even referred to a little bit before we started last time giving some of the background.

Maybe we should just kind of go around and we had a little discussion beforehand and after doing the play itself, what is still on your mind, what are the philosophical issues or any kind of issues that are nagging you? Lucy, do you want to start us?

One of the papers that you kind of sent through regarding translations. I found it could have been just that particular version. A little duffed. Did Semmel write somebody at a hijack at Dr. Seuss. And I felt it lacked the weight of other of when I've seen it on the stage.

It could have been rather jocular read. Maybe it's all in the read.

Are you talking about the translation itself that we read?

Yes, I suppose I am. Is that a bad thing?

No, it's not because there are other translations that we came across. I won't say we considered. Like for instance, one of them that Mark found had all the Spartans speaking in a very thick Appalachian accent.

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