{"id":574,"date":"2025-04-02T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/?p=574"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:13:27","slug":"disability-and-infanticide-in-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/2025\/04\/02\/disability-and-infanticide-in-ancient-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Thursday, April 3, 4:30 pm, Humanities Commons<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Have you ever heard that ancient Greeks killed disabled infants at birth? This story shows up in academic scholarship, textbooks, even popular media and memes. In this talk, I discuss where this idea comes from\u2014focusing on ancient passages in Plutarch, Plato, and Aristotle\u2014and assess what this evidence tells us about the realities of ancient life. I then present literary, archaeological, and skeletal evidence that shows that ancient Greeks enabled the survival of disabled infants. With this new perspective, we can begin to think about why this story about disabled infanticide has been so persistent in the modern imagination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Join\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/media\/page\/debby-sneed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/media\/page\/debby-sneed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Debby Sneed<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Classics at California State University, Long Beach, for a conversation on infanticide in Ancient Greece in the Humanities Commons.\u00a0Sponsored by the Department of Classical Studies and the Humanities Center\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/humanities.richmond.edu\/programs-initiatives\/justice.html\" href=\"https:\/\/humanities.richmond.edu\/programs-initiatives\/justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Disability Justice Initiative<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 3, 4:30 pm, Humanities Commons Have you ever heard that ancient Greeks killed disabled infants at birth? This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4449,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[327],"tags":[],"coauthors":[162679],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lectures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/files\/2025\/04\/debbysneed_flyer3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}