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  1. Medical opinion

    Soranus of Ephesus (a Methodic doctor who worked in Rome) wrote in his extant treatise on gynaecology that only certain children were worth raising, listing the various tests one could perform on a child to identify disabilities … See more

    Roman laws on disability

    The Twelve Tables included a law that said disabled children should be put to death, usually by stoning. They also stipulated that if a free person or an enslaved person is injured by another individual and becomes disabled, th… See more

    In Roman culture

    Blindness or partial blindness was highly regarded in the Roman psyche. Many individuals became famous after losing an eye. Notably, enslaved people would sometimes enter gladiatorial matches with a patch over … See more

    Attitudes towards disabled people

    Historians who study the conditions of the ancient world imagine that nearly everyone in society had some form of injury, impairment, or disability. Moreover, Roman law did its best to accommodate specific impairment… See more

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