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The exposure of infants in ancient Greece from Homeric to Christian times

by Mary Jean Grant




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Classics.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1935
Keywords: Greece – Social history and family Life.
Record ID: 1500731
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile110277.pdf


Abstract

Note: After the passing of centuries, it is often difficult, even well-nigh impossible, to come to a definite decision with regard to certain phases of everyday life amongst the ordinary folk: of ancient peoples, if archaeological remains are not very helpful and literary references few and far between. Thus it follows that the question as to the wide-spread prevalence of many customs is one which we are often content to settle by an occasional misinterpreted statement, or at least by two or three chance references which, perhaps, were the exception rather than the established rule.