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Incestuous and close-kin marriage in ancient Egypt and Persia : an examination of the evidence / Paul John Frandsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frandsen, Paul John, 1943- author.
- Series:
- CNI publications ; 34.
- Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 0902 5499 ; 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Incest--Egypt--History.
- Incest.
- Incest--Iran--History.
- Consanguinity--Egypt--History.
- Consanguinity.
- Consanguinity--Iran--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Copenhagen, Denmark : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, is usually dismissed for both ancient Egypt and Iran on the grounds that the evidence for it is unreliable or that it is only found as the exception, being allowed for royalty as repre-sentatives of the divine on earth. Neither view, from the perspective of this study, is tenable. This book restricts its examination to the sources for incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth arguments against the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon.
- Contents:
- On RankingRaison d'être; Earlier history of Persian close-kin marriage; Achaemenids; Strabo; Quintus Curtius Rufus; Inscriptions from Dura-Europos; Pausanias; Tatian; Bardesanes; Clement of Alexandria; Kartir; Diocletian; Basil the Great; Priscus; Agathias; Laws of Justinian I and Justin II; Summary; Persian Christians contra Zoroastrians; Theodoret; S. Eustathius the Cobbler - a source from Georgia; Armenian Sources; Mar Aba I; Jesubokht; S. Pethion; Abu Qurra; Summary; Arab Sources; History writing; On religious superiority; Literary texts; Oriental influence: 'Mesopotamians' and Hittites
- CONCLUDING REMARKSNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF TEXTS CITED; Ancient Near Eastern Sources; Persian sources; Scriptures; Classical Writers, Writers of Late Antiquity, Writers in Arabic; BACK COVER
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 912320270
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