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Ancient Greek Interior
Inside an ancient Greek house
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Here's a question: if destroying a hearth made one and one's descendants essentially accursed, how did that play out when the usual wartime destruction occurred? It was pretty regular, and widespread, so lot of people must have been considered as cursed by it. I'm guessing that's one of those "winners write the history" things, where if you win, you get to convince everybody you didn't do anything wrong. Has anyone investigated this? Was there some period of time in which someone who destroyed a hearth was pariah or somesuch? This isn't meant to be snide. I'm remembering the Old Testament requirement that someone who touched a dead body had to wash their clothes and wasn't allowed inside the town until sundown. After a battle, if they took that seriously, there was a mad rush to the river to do laundry. Since no such rush was ever recorded, I'm guessing they took it with a pound of salt. It's probably the same case with the Greeks and hearth-destroying, I'm guessing. Thoughts?
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