TY  - JOUR
T1  - "The glory that was greece"
AU  - Anagnostopoulos LD
Y1  - 1969/02/24
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03150210102021
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1518
EP  - 1518
VL  - 207
IS  - 8
N2  - 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
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03150210102021
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150210102021
ER  -