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The Beginning of childhood - classical Greece.
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Chapter 1 The Beginning of childhood Did the Greeks see a new baby as a child or just as another person? The reason for having a child can be seen as primarily to do their duty for the polis. There was also the requirement that only those men who had sons would be eligible for inheritance. Men had to have a child of at least twelve years (fourteen years for a boy) in order to be able to inherit. Children can therefore be seen in this context as a device that would enable their fathers to inherit. However, was this merely all they were born for? For what other reasons would children have been needed? Birth: Women were taken into the women's quarters of a house to give birth. This was due to the fear of pollution from the birth. Women seem to have been assisted only by women and only required the...
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