Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Works of Literata | One Witch's social commentary, book reviews, and theaology. The Juggler. WiccanWeb. People for the Un-Ethical Treatment of Asshats This is Carp! The House of Vines. I get so fucking sick of hearing about how “the ancient Greeks” were misogynist pigs. Ever notice that 90% of the evidence these people cite comes from Classical Athens? By Herakles, it’s as if the only two cities that existed in all Greece were Athens and Sparta!
Also not Athenians were the Epizephyrii Locrians, whom Polybios describes in the following manner: For I know for certain that the inhabitants themselves acknowledge that the report of Aristotle, and not of Timaeus, is the one which they have received from their ancestors. And they give the following proofs of this. In the first place, they stated that every ancestral distinction existing among them is traced by the female not the male side. In fact most of the Magna Graecian colonies had a pretty high regard for women. Angry over the treatment of their mothers, a group of Spartan men left with them in tow to found a new colony, Taras or Tarentum, where such sexual bigotry would not be tolerated: So there you go.
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