By the late fifth century, the identities of those excluded from full personhood–women, slaves, barbarians–are being increasingly understood in terms of the difficulty or impossibility of mastering the daemonic tendencies in their bodies, while the identities of free men grow more dependent on their capacity for keeping the body under control. Brooke Holmes
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By the late fifth century, the identities of those excluded from full personhood—women, slaves, barbarians—are being increasingly understood in terms of the difficulty or impossibility of mastering the daemonic tendencies in their bodies, while the identities of free men grow more dependent on their capacity for keeping the body under control. At this time (5th century), women and slaves were seen as inferior and easily influenced by daemons who could control them.

Source: The Symptom And The Subject: The Emergence Of The Physical Body In Ancient Greece

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