Although infant mortality was part of everyday life in ancient Greece, the disappearance of children was no less traumatic. If, in everyday life, the white-backed lécites echo the death of the ateloi and serve to construct the philia of the members of the oikos, the funerary stelae are useful for constructing a social image that unites the polis in the face of the drama. Myth, for its part, contains an extraordinary number of stories of infanticide such as that of Itis, the children of Medea or Astyanax where children become instruments of vengeance, all of which serve to warn of what is not to be.
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Project: 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
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Scope: Secondary Education
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Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: Although infant mortality was part of everyday life in ancient Greece, the disappearance of children was no less traumatic. If, in everyday life, the white-backed lécites echo the death of the ateloi and serve to construct the philia of the members of the oikos, the funerary stelae are useful for constructing a social image that unites the polis in the face of the drama. Myth, for its part, contains an extraordinary number of stories of infanticide such as that of Itis, the children of Medea or Astyanax where children become instruments of vengeance, all of which serve to warn of what is not to be.
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