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"191. If a free man picks up now this woman, now that one, now in this country, then in that country, there shall be no punishment if they came together sexually willingly." Does this mean if you gather up a harem from your travels/conquests, they're legally in the clear to get down with one another?
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Okay I've got to think that this is less a legal code and more like, judicial precedent. Like, "here's a list of rulings we've made so we don't have to bother somebody important every time a man has sex with a cow". It feels really weird to have a bunch of laws which amount to "this act is explicitly not illegal" otherwise
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I'm imagining cowfuckers being the Assyrian equivalent of libertarians who always pop up about the age of consent.
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May 21, 2020 02:22
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I've always found the Hittite laws so fun because they try really hard to be very specific but without the full context and looking at them thousands of years later it's the "that just raises further questions!" scene from Futurama.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I love to post this sacred law of the mighty Hittites every two years or so: how loving often were animals trying to gently caress people that you needed these specific exemptions if the animal started it
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May 21, 2020 02:36
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"She came on to me, officer"
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've always found the Hittite laws so fun because they try really hard to be very specific but without the full context and looking at them thousands of years later it's the "that just raises further questions!" scene from Futurama. Had humans invented general legal concepts yet at that time This sounds stupid but I think it’s a good question
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You can even write your own Hittite fanfiction:quote:If a cow spring on a man in the mountain, it is no crime, if it is a pig he will pay seven and a half shekels of silver and not be allowed to feed the hummingbirds for a year.
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You probably have to look at justinians code to see the first generalized legal ideas Maybe the East has then idk
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euphronius posted:Had humans invented general legal concepts yet at that time They must have had them implicitly to some degree, because you can't have a workable legal system without them, but it seems fair to say that they probably didn't have a lot of systematic legal theory.
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evilweasel posted:how loving often were animals trying to gently caress people that you needed these specific exemptions if the animal started it horse breeders can get a horse to gently caress what's basically a big tube. I feel like this is an area where training can go a long way.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've always found the Hittite laws so fun because they try really hard to be very specific but without the full context and looking at them thousands of years later it's the "that just raises further questions!" scene from Futurama. I remember reading lots of them in a Hittite course and every day would be just sounding out these ridiculous laws word by laborious word. I'm sad that it was all in transliteration though, cuneiform is fascinating.
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what was the significance of killing a serpent?
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FAUXTON posted:what was the significance of killing a serpent? I'm guessing it's a representative of a god and killing it while naming a person is a form of curse.
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May 21, 2020 05:16
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 Athena is tired of your poo poo.
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Deteriorata posted:I'm guessing it's a representative of a god and killing it while naming a person is a form of curse.
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Were incestous relationships really that big problem or were those laws more about writing down the things that are frown upon?
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 I had no idea Lydia under Croesus was so large. I thought it was just the plain west of the Anatolian plateau and east of Ionia.
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I did not know that Septimius Severus commissioned a map of Rome and posted it in public: http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/  It broke.
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Catching up from a few pages back. So do we have any idea how rare and costly a suit of this armour would be? Would it be strictly for Kings and Nobles etc, or would it be the sort of thing the head of a reasonably prosperous household could afford to bring when summoned to war.
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Deptfordx posted:Catching up from a few pages back. The most famous armor of this kind was found in a tomb at Dendra which was not in itself a major Mycenaean site. But it definitely would have belonged to an palatial elite.
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Arglebargle III posted:I did not know that Septimius Severus commissioned a map of Rome and posted it in public: That's because it fell.
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The British Museum has started a contemporary-style travel guide series on ancient cities: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/historical-city-travel-guide-rome-1st-century-ad/ Crazy how we argue so much about modern traffic congestion when Rome just banned vehicle traffic inside the city 6 AM to 6 PM. Absolute legends. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 18:14 on May 21, 2020 |
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In ancient Greece the sculpture of Theagenes was convicted of murdering a man called Thasos by falling on him. The sculpture was exiled and tossed into the sea. It was later recovered because the oracle of Delphi said that the country would remain barren until the sculpture was restored.
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The modern state still prosecutes physical objects involved in crimes all the time!
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Arglebargle III posted:The modern state still prosecutes physical objects involved in crimes all the time! never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately_64,695_Pounds_of_Shark_Fins
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Arglebargle III posted:The modern state still prosecutes physical objects involved in crimes all the time! the modern law of mental illness and culpability for crime is not much improved over deodand, either See https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-can-narrow-insanity-defense-supreme-court-rules-11584999118
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What’s some good reading on sexuality in ancient civilizations? I’m interested particularly in the idea that some cultures considered women to have a stronger sexual drive than men.
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 "What the gently caress, God?" is actually the emotion the scene is intended to convey as Iphigenia is hauled off to be sacrificed to Artemis
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Little bit different from Orbis: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1pMtvBYQSe97ZU9iojy8ouhIpUBZKkha0&usp=sharing
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 Everyone who had "mysterious ancient cubes" on your 2020 bingo card.  And here's one for like, three people here.
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Grand Fromage posted:
We have such sights to show you
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May 22, 2020 18:49
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Is this one of them?
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Grand Fromage posted:
Noooo! My Sui Dynasty!
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Lead had a lot of sorcerous uses, so the guy is probably cursed well and good at this point.
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Grand Fromage posted:
:chefskiss: boy do we love some late antiquity nose-onto-sandpaper grinding into Korea.
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Ynglaur posted:Lead had a lot of sorcerous uses, so the guy is probably cursed well and good at this point. alternatively, some fisherman wanted to find out if cubes were a good shape for the weights on his net
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4th century BC Celtic: Gilt bronze and red enamel
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