Ancient Athens – Modern India parallels (Murder of Eratosthe

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This quote “Families are more willing to have the stigma of rape rather than having the stigma of their daughter choosing her own sex or life partner,” from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38796457 reminded me of Euphiletos claim that seducers were worse than rapists:

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The assumption is that those who achieve their aims by force are hated by those they have violated, while seducers so corrupt the souls of their victims that they make other men’s wives more intimate with them than they are with their husbands. They make the whole house theirs, and it becomes unclear to which father the children belong, the husband or the seducer. Because of this the lawmaker assigned death as the penalty for seducers.