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Happy editing! Haploidavey (talk) 22:27, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Ares and human sacrifice in Sparta
Hi. Good catch. I agree that as it stood, the claim was at the very least insufficiently cited and evidenced (the claim seems to have been taken from theoi.com - not a reliable source - and based on Heynes' 18th-19th century uncritical reading of a fragment of Apollodorus. It seems that Apollodorus does claim that human sacrifice to Ares took place - but in what one might call prehistory - or "mythological time", not in his own day nor within any specific, dateable era. I'll amend the material, with informed scholarly, modern commentary from Human sacrifice in ancient Greece, DD Hughes, 1991. Cheers. Haploidavey (talk) 22:37, 5 September 2017 (UTC)