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	Podcast:		The History of Ancient Greece
	Episode:		075 Pregnancy, Abortion, and Divorce
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:58:08
	Publish Date:		2018-05-20 19:00:00
	Description:		In this episode, we discuss the medical and philosophical writings on women’s bodies, particularly the Hippocratic Corpus and Aristotle, on the topics of menstruation, pregnancy, and the “wandering womb”; the various methods and techniques for contraception, abortion, and exposure; the legal procedure for divorces (usually due to childlessness and adultery); and the ways in which adulterers were punished in ancient Greece Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/05/075-pregnancy-abortion-and-divorce.html
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