Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia - Couverture rigide

Frandsen, Paul John

9788763507783: Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8763507781 ISBN 13 : 9788763507783

Editeur : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009

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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, 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.

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� propos de l'auteur

Paul John Frandsen is a Danish Egyptologist. He is the author of several books on ancient Egyptian language and religion, including, most recently, Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia: An Examination of the Evidence.

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