The Power of Excess: Royal Incest and the Ptolemaic Dynasty

The Greco-Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies, which ruled Egypt from 322 until 30 BCE, established early on a practice of incestuous marriage in the royal house. This custom, which may have had a number of pragmatic functional purposes, was on a more profound level symbolic of royal power. But roya...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Anthropologica (Ottawa) 2006, Vol.48 (2), p.165-186
1. Verfasser:	Ager, Sheila L.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Brothers Children Classical literature Cultural anthropology Daughters Egypt Egyptian civilization Females Greek language Inbreeding Incest Intermarriage Interpersonal relations Latin literature Learning transfer Marriage Mothers Power Pragmatics Siblings Sons Taboos The New Anthropology of Sexuality / La nouvelle anthropologie de la sexualité Translation Valerius Maximus War
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