In the context of a discussion of the literary tropes and cultural assumptions Aristotle deploys in setting out his project at the beginning of the Politics, to many of which he never returns again in the book:
"Founders were very important to the Greeks. They all have stories about the first person who founded their city and wrote its laws. -- Well, not the Athenians; they sprung from the ground -- that is what 'autochthonous' means. But founders were very important to other Greeks. -- Athena gave the Athenians olive trees. So that was important."
-- the dry, but relaxed, but sharp, but never mean, but terribly blunt Gisela Striker, who was one of my favorite philosophers for years before she became one of my favorite people as well
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