Discussion

Ancient History (3,000 BCE - 500 ACE)

Greece

 High rate of pregnancies

 Gave women social status

 Ensured family survival

 Ancient Greeks perceived children as unruly

and in need of punishment

How do you think our society perceives children today?

You can post your research and though in our Café

 There was a belief at that tine that, if women

don’t have sex & birth babies continuously, their

womb will dry off and wonder inside women’s

body making them crazy

 It was called “hysteria” or “wondering womb”

Men, who suffered from Shell Shock

during the WWI, had some symptoms

of what ancient Greeks called Hysteria

Louis XIV and his nurse

17th-century

Wet-Nurse: a women who breastfeeds for another’s child

 Practice of commercialization of breastfeeding

 Wet-nursed children could be known as "milk-siblings“

 Practice continued until the bottle feeding was introduce

in 19th century

 It was abandoned in France due to high mortality rate of

wet-nurses (who were poor women)

 Practice was used in many cultures around the world

Ancient Greece (3,000 BCE - 500 ACE)

Research on your own:

OREGON

Northwest Mothers Milk Bank

Portland

Watch this clip about breastmilk bank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWzHrgv87_U

Do you think the practice of commercialization of breastfeeding

exist today in the US?

Ancient Greece & Rome

Infanticide:

 Practice of killing infants or allowing them to die

 Was a fact of life in ancient times

 Birth itself didn’t give a child a legal status as a human being

 After a child was born, parents could take several days to decide whether

to keep the baby

 Possibly there was a sex-selective infanticide

Please research if today parents have a preference to have a girl or a boy.

Research such countries as China and India in this regard. You can post your research and though in our Café

Do you think infanticide exist today?

Research Infanticide as a risk factor

in Postpartum Psychoses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id8LTjE1wNc

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome had a high rate of divorce and remarriage

 Divorce is an ancient phenomenon

Family: the Power of “Patria Potestas”

 Absolute paternal power within the family

 Father could kill any family member without

trial or consequences for his killings

 It illustrates patriarchal family structure

 give up your will & obey

Homosexuality

 Widely accepted and practiced - especially for men

 Emperor Nero (37-68 CE) was the first to actually marry a male

 Out of the first 12 emperors, only one (Claudius) did not have a male lover

Female homosexuality  Not as accepted, but was still practiced

Pederasty  Erotic and/or romantic relationship between an adult man and an adolescent

boy (outside the boy’s immediate family)

 Viewed as a proactive in which an older man mentors a young boy

Ancient Rome

Recommended Documentary: Sex in the Ancient World

 Not on your exam - but interesting info

Ancient Egypt 3100 B.C. - 332 B.C

Recommended Documentary

How did the Ancient Egyptians Enjoy Sex

 Not on your exam, but interesting!