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Originally Posted by Tuckerfan
Actually, the tales of child abuse might be slightly exaggerated. Apparently, archeologists have recently discovered the site where "undesirable" infants were said to be abandoned, and in excavating the area, there's a distinct lack of children's skeletons. It looks to be mostly a place where captured enemies and slaves were killed. Not that this eliminates all instances of child abuse in Spartan culture, but it certainly looks like some of it was hype. (No doubt spread to make potential invaders think twice about attacking Sparta.)
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Well, I was referring to the abuse of children that lived. The males, at least.
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