Chuck Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com:
Returning to Oedipus, his abandonment in the wilderness was how he was estranged from his mother and father, how he was disinherited from his birth right, and how he came to enact his unwitting vengeance on his own house and himself. That is in effect how ancient Greeks conceived the moral issue of justifiable infanticide.
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There's kind of interesting twist to ancient infanticide. (I'm drawing on materials I read years ago here, so don't take this as gospel, ha ha.)
The Greeks and Romans practiced infanticide. The Egyptians did not. So, when Egypt was under Macedonian and then Roman control, Egyptians would go through the trash heaps and other such places where babies would be abandoned and take them home. As a result you see people's names on records of the period that translate as "Found on the Trash Heap" and whatnot.
Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
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