Deformed infants were sometimes killed (Den Boer, 98–99, 113, 116 in other cultures, e.g., Dawson, 324), but most babies were abandoned. The father had the right to refuse to rear a newborn, even against the mother’s objections (Gardner, 6). I'd create a collection of Background resouces, and search it for (infanticide, abortion, foeticide).Ģ.7. He concludes that there were not temple prostitutes, but there still were a great many 'secular' prostitutes in the city. On the question of cultic prostitution in Corinth, Jerome Murphy O'Connor's St Paul's Corinth (an excellent book but sadly not in Logos) as a very helpful survey of the evidence on pp 56-57, 144-146. ![]() It didn't become illegal until the 4th century AD. I can't speak specifically for Corinth, but I know that abortion (and infanticide, and effective infanticide through exposing infants) was rife amongst Greeks and Romans in the first century. ![]() I'm afraid the answer to the question is probably a very unpleasant one.
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