CLAS 1270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sony Music Entertainment, Anthesteria, Eileithyia

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1270
• Professor: Nau Robert

Document Summary

Lecture 13 clas 1270: parents and children, marriage, the elderly. Used by unmarried girls, prostitutes, and slaves: extremely dangerous. In some circumstances, illegal: abortion also caused religious pollution. Sacred law from the temple of artemis at cyrene: miscarriage - fully formed fetus - omen of death in house. Not fully formed - treat like child birth. Killing a child would involve the parents in blood guilt - religious pollution. So they would abandon them outside the town - then up to the gods. Girls would be more likely to be abandoned. Dowry had to be provided for them. Possibility of abandoned child being saved: desperate citizens looking for an heir, slave dealers willing to invest in a child for slave trade. Birth: generally at home, doctors rarely present, had the maia - most important attendant - midwife/priestess. Ease and safety of childbirth: prayers offered to hera, eileithyia, and artemis, reliance on fold traditions.