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Fatally Disrupting The Thesmophoria: The Savagery Of Greece’s Citizen Wives
A dominant paradigm of ancient Greece was turned on its head when subjugated women were made autonomous by participating in a feminine fertility festival known as the Thesmophoria. Devoted to human as well as crop fertility, the Thesmophoria...
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