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Use this tag for questions that pertain to historical events, or claim whose evidence is historical in nature.

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Did classical Greeks claim that children are solely products of the father's sperm?

I just read on a site about Greek mythology: It may seem odd for Metis to have been pregnant with Athena but, never mentioned as her mother. This is because the classic Greeks believed that childr …
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