...a ešte koľko ich je, dá te si colu alebo limonádu a hneď máte na stole tak zo šesť
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Agresívne ešte len začnú byť, vraví vedec o osách. Prichádzajú o zmysel života, čoskoro nebudú mať čo stratiť
Osy sa tento rok zdanlivo správajú inak. Viac práce kvôli nim majú hasiči, ktorí likvidujú väčšie množstvo hniezd než obvykle, aj záchranári, ktorí riešia veľa prípadov osieho bodnutia s alergickou reakciou.Jiří Labanc (Denník N)


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in reply to HeavenlyPossum • • •In 2021, archeologist Debby Sneed wrote a paper reviewing the evidence for the popular belief in Classical Greek infanticide and found that it was basically non-existent. The best known source is a Roman writer, Plutarch, who made the claim about Sparta in the previous post-about 700 or 800 years after the fact. Plato and Aristotle also wrote passages about infanticide, as suggestions or thought experiments, not as historical accounts.
In contrast, contemporary Greek texts are full of recommendations for how to help, care for, and employ people who were born with disabilities. The Hippocratic Corpus-of Hippocratic Oath, physician-do-no-harm fame-specifically refers to exercises to help people born with limb differences. The archeology of the region also turns up little ceramic vessels that Sneed identifies as feeding bottles-based on their shape and the traces of milk products in them-for infants born with cleft palates.
(Sneed's paper is hidden behind a journal paywall, but she happily sent me a copy when I emailed her.)
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Project MUSE - Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece
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in reply to HeavenlyPossum • • •Sneed, who specializes in the archeology of disability, has also explored the construction of accessibility ramps at Classical Greek temples. Based on their size, their stone construction, and their frequent association with temples and sanctuaries devoted to healing, Sneed concludes that these were deliberate and costly efforts to make these sites accessible to people with mobility and other impairments.
"The concentration of ramps at sites frequented by individuals with mobility (and other) impairments appears to suggest that the ancient Greeks consciously provided for the needs of the users of these spaces. In much the same way that sites associated with athletics were provisioned with stadia and gymnasia, healing sanctuaries were provided with the buildings and features necessary for the successful inclusion of its intended visitors in ritual activities...When we acknowledge the somatic realities of ancient Greek life and accept that, far from being excluded, individuals with impaired mobility occupied myriad productive and meaningful roles within their families and communities, we can ask new questions about the physical framework of the ancient world.”
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The architecture of access: ramps at ancient Greek healing sanctuaries | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
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in reply to HeavenlyPossum • • •These were people who lived more than 2,000 years ago in the Iron Age. They did not have access to modern tools or artificial power. Everything they built, they built themselves, with their own hands, and occasionally some animal power. They were, by modern standards, unimaginably poor. And yet Sneed demonstrates that they devoted time, energy, and effort into caring for disabled infants and making buildings accessible to those who needed access.
In the United States, the Americans with Disabilities Act wasn't signed into law until 1990. Despite the law, Americans with disabilities still routinely face discrimination and inaccessibility around the country, often because enforcement is lax and private firms can't be bothered to spend resources on compliance. *But they have no excuse.* The US is the richest state that is or ever was; it has access to unimaginably more resources than the Classical Greeks did thousands of years ago. If they could do it, modern societies like the US can do it.
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in reply to HeavenlyPossum • • •Archeologists have found evidence from around the world, in sites spanning tens of thousands of years, of people caring for the sick, the injured, and the disabled. A young man buried in what is now Vietnam who lived, paralyzed, with Klippel-Feil syndrome for about ten years. A Neanderthal man who survived grievous injuries, including a partial blinding and the loss of an arm, in what is now 45,000 years ago. A boy who lived to about 15 with spina bifida in what is now Florida, 7,500 years ago. On and on and on.
These were people who almost certainly required enormous levels of care. Many of them would have struggled to contribute to the sustenance of their communities. Many of them were not particularly mobile. And yet they survived, many of years, which could have only happened with the cooperation of multiple other people. These are ancient societies in which, we've been taught, life was "nasty, brutish, and short." Yet they diverted precious resources to the care of other people, many of whom could never materially reward their carers.
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