Dan's Brain

Ancient Greeks didn't kill 'weak' babies


  • Source: https://www.instapaper.com/read/1467605576

  • belief used to justify atrocities (Nazi eugenetics)

  • study published in Hesperia disagrees Greeks actually did this

    • Plutarco was writing about events that took place 700 years before he was born
  • archeological evidence of death pits filled with babies, consistent with high infant mortality non selective infaticide

  • findings of adults with anomalous limbs or disabilities