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9788763507783

Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia : An Examination of the Evidence

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  • ISBN13:

    9788763507783

  • ISBN10:

    8763507781

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-03-20
  • Publisher: Museum Tusculanum

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This work examines the evidence for marriage and sexual relations between siblings and between parent and child in ancient Egypt and pre-Islamic Iran. Incestuous relationships, as a cultural feature are usually dismissed for both ancient Egypt and Iran on the grounds that it is only found as the exception, being allowed for royalty as representatives for the divine on earth, or that the evidence for it is unreliable. Neither view, from the perspective of this study, is tenable. The book restricts its examination to the sources for incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon.

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