Ancient Greeks
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The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient Greek people cited for the custom of private vengeance illustrated by Theoclymenes.
The same custom of allowing individuals to avenge their own wrongs prevailed among the ancient Greeks, as we find from the words of Theoclymenes, in Homer’s Odyssey.
” Therefore the custom of the ancient Greeks, which rendered it unlawful and impious to use the same bath, or to partake of the same festivities and sacred rites with a person who had killed another in time of peace, did not extend to any one who had killed a public enemy in war.
Applied Eugenics
Referenced via their gods as exemplars of a different concept of immortality (invulnerability to wounds) contrasted with the biological immortality of germ-plasm.
The immortality, as Weismann pointed out, is not of the kind attributed by the Greeks to their gods, who could not die because no wound could destroy them.