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more castration won't end castration culture
Worse than a slave-trader, the Greek man Panionios of Chios about 2500 years ago made his living by purchasing beautiful young men and castrating them. He then sold the castrated, enslaved men in Sardis and Ephesus to Persians seeking eunuchs. That's espe
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Signs of Hero Cult in Homeric Poetry
4 Silver jug with handle of naked man holding on to wild animals. From Karun Treasure (Lydian Treasure) from seventh-century BGC and found near Uşak, Turkey. Source image thanks to Arif Solak and Wikimedia Commons .
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captive King Croesus finally achieved gender equality with wife
In the sixth century BGC, the Lydian king Croesus was extraordinarily wealthy. His reputation for extraordinary wealth developed under the same misleading accounting used to value the wealth of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos while they were married to Melinda
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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
Ambler, Wayne. 2001. Xenophon of Athens. The Education of Cyrus . Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.
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