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Anachronistic Morality and Child Abandonment - Sean Manning - 12-13-2021

As I promised Nathan Ross a year or two ago, here is my post on the Greek (and Roman, and Mesopotamian) practice of child abandonment and what the Egyptians thought of it https://www.bookandsword.com/2021/12/04/child-abandonment-in-greek-and-roman-egypt/ (cw: infanticide, child slavery)


RE: Anachronistic Morality and Child Abandonment - Crispianus - 12-14-2021

(12-13-2021, 07:04 PM)Sean Manning Wrote: As I promised Nathan Ross a year or two ago, here is my post on the Greek (and Roman, and Mesopotamian) practice of child abandonment and what the Egyptians thought of it https://www.bookandsword.com/2021/12/04/child-abandonment-in-greek-and-roman-egypt/ (cw: infanticide, child slavery)

I once asked a museums pedagog why there was nothing on slavery in what was a huge brand new Roman museum...
You can imagine what the answer was...