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Greek Maternity, or Why French Aristrocrats Cut Off Their Left Testicle

I promised you the history of motherhood, and by golly, that’s what you’re going to get. Hippocrates believed that the uterus had two sides, possibly with a septum in the center. While this is present in approximately 3% of the human female population (and does not appear to affect fertility), it is not considered normal [...]

Hippocrates and the Hodos

Hippocrates was, in fact, not one guy. There was a physician named Hippocrates, about the time of Plato, practicing in Athens in the Golden Age of Greece, during the late 5th and early 4th century BCE. But the writings that we attribute to this one person are undoubtedly a collection of works from the Golden [...]

Pandora’s Legacy (NefHxMotherhood)

As we enter classical antiquity, it behooves us to look at the classical conception of a woman. The ancient Greeks set the stage both for the Romans and for the Christian age. To the Greeks, a woman was an impaired version of humanity. She was, simply, not complete. She required her father, and then her [...]