... infanticide. Some studies postulate that the average Greek family consisted of two boys and one girl, statistically an unnatural figure. Both Aristotle and Plato, famous Greek philosophers, suggested that the age of marriage be postponed thereby limiting the childbearing years for women. Then, if the number of ... present in ancient Greece. In some areas unmarried daughters were expected to get an abortion to save themselves and their fathers from dishonor. Plato thought that the state should mandate that all pregnancies needed to be aborted in women over the age of forty. While the famou...

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... as labourers in workshops or foundries or on construction schemes. Literature exhibits us a thoroughly masculine society. family life played no part. Timeworn comedy deals almost exhaustively with men, the Symposium both of Plato and Xenophon make it exceedingly evident that when a gentleman entertained friends the only women present were those who had no reputation to lose, apart from a professional one. Twice in ... ...

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