Posts Tagged: Antiquity
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Academic Finds That Sex With Children Still Considered Bad Thing

No one wants to publish historical research on man-boy loving and how it is good for you, strangely enough! The thesis of the long-banned article? "The empirical data show that pederasty is not only not predestined to injure, but can benefit the adolescent when practiced according to the ancient Greek form." Eww, you mean, like, covered in olive oil? Gross.

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Researchers Making New Literary Discoveries That Will Eventually Be Owned By Google

Neat (yeah, suck it, it is neat) piece in the Journal on how the move to digitize literary works of antiquity has resulted in a number of new discoveries, including lost gospels, an alternate version of Medea in which the main character does not kill her children, and what is believed to be an attempt to reboot the Oedipus franchise by explaining that the Theban king and his wife Jocasta are "just cousins." (I may have made one of these things up.) Anyway, fascinating stuff.