Pure-bloodness

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Examples of pure-bloodness
We inherit things from our parents. Alongside, custom and nature who we are and what we our features are, are a sign of who you are and what society you come from.

Athenian citizenship was tied to pure-bloodness. Pericles saw himself as a fool after the loss of his two sons for only allow somebody to be called an Athenian citizen with only one parent who is an Athenian citizen.

To dwindle the pure-bloodness of a line was seen as something foolish.

Creusa a princess of Athens, is married to a foreigner as a war-bride. The marriage has been childless thus far so they go to the oracle who gives them the son of Creusa and Apollo by pretending he is Xuthus’ son. Creusa tries to kill him to ensure that a child of Athenian blood inherits Athens. He is then proven to be her son by Athena and told what his future is to demonstrate the importance of Athens in the Greek world and also demonstrates how xenophobic a society can be.

Only the blood of the pure, autochthonous will appease the gods as it is like for like on the blood Cadmus spilt during the setting up on Thebes.

Plato’s Athenian connects mixed descent with slavery and unhappiness

Plato’s student Aristotle links civil strife with cities where there is mixed descent, where there is not one colony, no pure-bloodness

The royal house of Macedon was seen as of Greek descendent because the governors of the Olympic Games ruled that they could compete in them when the other contestants protested they were non-Greeks and could not compete. Two examples: Perdiccas and the entering of his horses and an ancestor of Alexander the Great, Alexander entering a foot race. Greek through blood.