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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 02:54 pm (UTC)This is why I'm going to be a history major. :P And moving to Sparta.
I'm liking the AU already. :)
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Date: 2004-05-10 04:16 pm (UTC)Good for you! We dont have major and minor subjects: so I spend all day every day studying history. And at the moment that's Sparta. I miss the existance of weekends, but when I find gems like this...
I'm liking the AU already.
Great! Now I just have to find the time to write it. I think I have a bit of clear space a week on Wednesday. (oh I wish I was joking!)