[wideawake]

"Women were mothers at twelve, grandmothers at twenty-four, dead before they were thirty," she wrote.

I hate this ahistorical crap.

Women in ancient Greece were not dead by thirty. What these idiots fail to realize is that low life expectancy back then was due to high infant/child mortality.

Out of every ten people born in those times, three or four would die before they made it to age 3.

If you survived childhood diseases and lived to adulthood in ancient Greece, you would generally live to 65-70.

There were nonagenarians and centenarians in ancient Greece.

Also most Greek women, given the state of nutrition back then, would not have been able to become mothers at 12. Women were generally married off as soon as they could have children and in ancient Greece that was generally 15-16.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Women in ancient Greece were not dead by thirty. What these idiots fail to realize is that low life expectancy back then was due to high infant/child mortality.

I think also they're confusing life SPAN with life EXPECTANCY. Human lifespan probably hasn't changed in hundreds of thousands of years.