In my undergraduate thesis I explored the possibility that Ancient Greek fertility cults ritualiz... more In my undergraduate thesis I explored the possibility that Ancient Greek fertility cults ritualized certain ethnobotanical practices that might today have been called "abortion," but at the time, would have been thought of in a very different way. A lack of very hard evidence leaves these suggestions speculative at best, however we know from modern comparative anthropological studies that every culture has some method or another of dealing with pregnancies that do not end in a living birth, and the near silence on this matter in the historical record and modern scholarship has left this a question worth asking.
In my undergraduate thesis I explored the possibility that Ancient Greek fertility cults ritualiz... more In my undergraduate thesis I explored the possibility that Ancient Greek fertility cults ritualized certain ethnobotanical practices that might today have been called "abortion," but at the time, would have been thought of in a very different way. A lack of very hard evidence leaves these suggestions speculative at best, however we know from modern comparative anthropological studies that every culture has some method or another of dealing with pregnancies that do not end in a living birth, and the near silence on this matter in the historical record and modern scholarship has left this a question worth asking.
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