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#Athenian tyrany
theoi-crow · 5 months
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Not the ancient Greeks making a very tall but handsome woman cosplay as Athena in order to trick Athens into accepting a tyrant (rumored to be gay or at least bi) who was also having anal sex with his 2nd wife to avoid her getting pregnant with a cursed child (because he believed her side of the family was cursed)....
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The shit I learn when doing research for a paper that has nothing to do with any of this but here we are....Thanks Herodotus, that was irrelevant but I appreciate the historical lesson on avoiding cursed children....
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