RT Journal
A1 Anagnostopoulos LD
T1 "The glory that was greece"
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD February 24
VO 207
IS 8
SP 1518
OP 1518
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150210102021
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150210102021
AB To the Editor:— 
    Dr. Strange's comments (206:377, 1968) in response to Dr. Richards' article contain historical inaccuracies.To state that "feticide and infanticide are peculiarly Greek" suggests that he has unjustifiably generalized and exaggerated from the laws of Lycurgus of Sparta that the grossly deformed infants be exposed to die (these laws were not imposed on other Greek cities); it also suggests that Dr. Strange is unfamiliar with the greatest part of the Bible which refers repeatedly to mass murders of infants and children. These murders were aiming at genocide (Egypt), propitiating deities like Moloch (a semitic God) with the sacrifices of hecatombs of unblemished infants, or securing a throne (Herod). How do these compare with the laws of Lycurgus? And was Pythagoras, to whose ethics Dr. Strange gives a little credit, not Greek? He lived after Lycurgus and before Thales, and his followers were almost exclusively Greek for