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[aleathiel]

Okay, just when I think studying archaic and classical Sparta can't get any weirder I get to marriage ceremonies:

They dressed the woman as a man and cut her hair and made her lie in wait in a darkened room for her husband. Nobody knows why, but one suggestion is that it was to make the husband feel more "at home" given that all his previous sexual encounters would have been homosexual.

On Argos brides even wore false beards.

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[hot-x-bunny.livejournal.com]

On Argos brides even wore false beards.

Viggo would be enjoying that then *g*

[londinensa.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

Don't you just love Classical Greece?

[iscaris.livejournal.com]

No wonder Helen ran away with Paris!

[nitw1t.livejournal.com]

On Argos brides even wore false beards.
According to my classical education (i.e. Monty Python), that was just so they could attend the stoneings.

And may I say, reading your earlier posts, you have the poshest plot bunnies! I'm imagining them with monicles,in tweed, sipping cognac!
*looks down at her own plot bunny which is scratching it arse in public*

[anjali-organna.livejournal.com]

but one suggestion is that it was to make the husband feel more "at home" given that all his previous sexual encounters would have been homosexual.

*cracks up* That's hilarious. I love it.

[coppertone.livejournal.com]

*dies*
This is why I'm going to be a history major. :P And moving to Sparta.
I'm liking the AU already. :)