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This is Sparta – No Baby-Throwing Allowed (ca. 5th C BC)
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
So… it turns out that the Classicists were wrong. Or at least, their sources were wrong. The belief that ancient Spartans ‘purged’ their population of weakness was a bit of an exaggeration, to say the least – apparently Spartans didn’t throw their babies off cliffs after all.
Archaeological digs in the area of ancient Sparta turned [...]
