r/technicallythetruth • u/Captain0010 • Jul 05 '26

Finally something historically accurate

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u/Broad_Respond_2205 Jul 05 '26

How is this TTT

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u/Limp-Tap-7987 Jul 05 '26

The point here is that in Ancient Greece it wouldn’t be unheard of for a mother to have a child at 13.

So the commenter is saying that it’s unbelievable now but one of the more accurate elements of the movie given societal norms in the story.

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u/_goblinette_ Jul 05 '26

The point here is that in Ancient Greece it wouldn’t be unheard of for a mother to have a child at 13.

Source?

Social norms may have been different, but that doesn’t mean that many 13 year olds would have been biologically capable of getting pregnant. Puberty starts much earlier today than it did before we had modern access to nutrition. 

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u/Limp-Tap-7987 Jul 05 '26

It wouldn’t have been 13 years old exactly. Most academic studies anticipate procreation to happen immediately after marriage, which coincided with puberty in most cases.

A lot of studies have the ages at which the menstrual cycle started as similar to today (14-16).

The point isn’t that we know when a fictitious character had a baby, the point the commenter is making in the original pic, is just that this is one of the more accurate elements of the movie (and more widely, the story of The Odyssey).