12-14-2021, 12:16 AM
(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/...man-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...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867