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aleathielOkay, 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.
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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Date: 2004-05-10 09:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-10 09:30 am (UTC)(yeah, that's why I appear to be on LJ)
Aaargh, bunnies!
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Date: 2004-05-10 09:34 am (UTC)Well, I kinda am: it's on Sparta!
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Date: 2004-05-10 09:34 am (UTC)