Demography and Dowries: Perspectives on Female Infanticide in Classical Greece

Realidades e imágenes de la pobreza en la Atenas clásica

“…Se trata de una práctica que tradicionalmente ha venido asociada por los estudiosos de la Antigüedad y del mundo griego, en particular, a la pobreza y al infanticidio y abandono femenino (vid. Eyben 1980-1: 14;Golden 1981 547 ;Garnsey 1988: 63;Salmon 1999: 82;Ingalls 2002;Brulé 2009;Grubbs 2013).…”

The Burden of a Child: Examining the Effect of Pregnancy on Women’s Power in Ancient Egypt and Greece

“…[90] According to Zimmern, the practice of exposing female infants existed primarily because "the provision of a dowry weighed heavily on a Greek father's mind." [91] However, Patterson debates that females were considered a "valuable social and political asset", hence negating the impact of the expenditure associated with a dowry and reason for infanticide. [92] Regardless of the frequency and extent to which infanticide was practiced in Greece, the absence of it in Egypt could at least be partly ascribed to the fact that children were thought to be the result of the creative powers of men.…”