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Incestuous and close-kin marriage in ancient Egypt and Persia : an examination of the evidence /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Copenhagen, Denmark :
Museum Tusculanum Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | CNI publications ;
34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FRONT COVER ; TITLE PAGE ; COLOPHONE ; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTORY REMARKS; Nature vs. Culture; On the research history; Aim; THE UNIVERSALIST VIEW; THE PRACTICE OF INCEST; Incest exists/existed, but is not a problem; The prohibition against incest is not universal; The Egyptian evidence; Pharaonic Egypt; Brother-Sister Marriage; Parent-Child Marriage; Dreams; Curses; Incest with affines; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Economics; 'Salonfähig'; 'Camp'-mentality; Other explanations
- and the Greeks; The Persian evidence; The law texts; The ranking system and raison d'être of xvētōdah
- 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