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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [b]^ LOL Reminds me of how Greek travelers were shocked to see Egyptian parents keep and raise children born with deformities or disabilities. So unlike the eugenic tradition in Greece where such children were left abandoned to die of exposure since the Greeks valued "perfection" among their children than the actual life. [/b] ^^Indeed. [i] "Although the eldest child was normally raised regardless of its sex, some historians have conjectured that as many as 20 percent of newborn Athenian girls were abandoned in places like the local garbage dump. Slave dealers collected a few of the exposed infants and turned them over to wet nurses to be raised and sold as slaves. Most exposed infants, however, died, and exposure quickly became infanticide." -p234 "The Spartan lifestyle exacerbated the population decline. Sparta was the only Greek state in which male infanticide was institutionalized.." p147 [/i] FROM: -- Sarah B. Pomeroy. 1999. Ancient Greece: a political, social, and cultural history. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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