Posted on 05/05/2011 4:22:17 PM PDT by Little Bill
Aren’t there modern cases in Australia of justifying rape and sexual abuse as part of Aboriginal culture?
I was reading a book about the Battle of Canae, and the author claimed tha only the Carthagineans killed their babies.
In Rome slaves were not concidered people as such, Roman citizens were people and operated under Law. If a Roman wanted to kill a slave or its kid that was his option until late in the Empire. It wasn’t sacrifice it was economics.
http://home.scarlet.be/mauk.haemers/collegium_religionis/human_sacrifice.htm
“Infanticide, the killing of unwanted babies, was common throughout the Roman Empire and other parts of the ancient world, according to a new study.”
Yes.
Unlike us, they were pagans who didn’t believe in Judaeo-Christian principles.
No surprise.
IIRC, however, it was the prerogative of the father and generally done by taking the child out to a remote location and exposing it to the elements/wildlife.
The Carthaginians used infants (not necessarily their *own*, but still) as human sacrifices to various idols. That is of course denied by their modern apologists, but it remains a fact. Cannae was Hannibal’s greatest victory, but he’s really just the precursor of Arab jihadist invaders of the Middle Ages to the present.
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