Scholars over the last few decades have been unable to find a convincing explanation for the widespread practice of brother-sister marriage among the common people in Roman Egypt, a social practice seemingly disregarding one of the most fundamental taboos. This paper now argues that these ‘incestuous’ marriages were in fact marriages between a biological child and an adopted one, a practice documented also for other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean. Due to the severe mortality regime before the demographic transition, up to 30 per cent of all fathers did not have a male heir, and therefore adopting the son-in-law was a common succession and inheritance strategy in many pre-modern societies
This chapter offers a first survey of the phenomenon of the “power couple” in Greco-Roman antiquity....
ABSTRACT: Marriage was the union performed with the intention to establishing a family. Among the Ro...
SUMMARY A total of 26 554 Egyptians was ascertained to study the incidence of consanguineous marriag...
Many societies have a normative preference for close-kin marriage of one or another variety. Whether...
For at least two hundred and fifty years, many men in the Roman province of Egypt married their full...
Marriage among the Romans could occur at quite an early age, according to modern standards. Bethroth...
This project examines a variety of documentary evidence preserved on papyrus in order to discern the...
Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of a...
In a conference on the subject of Family in Antiquity to raise a discussion on incest can be conside...
International audienceThis paper takes into consideration the problems surrounding the transfer of f...
The author's agreement with the publisher states: "After publication of the Work, the Author will ha...
In Greece and Rome the head of the family had special responsibility for ensuring continuity, which ...
A Roman family consisted of the pater familias, his wedded wife, two or three children, house slaves...
There are many controversies that surround the problem of incest in Ancient Egypt. One of them is be...
The Roman Senate abrogated the long-standing ban of marriages between paternal uncle and niece to le...
This chapter offers a first survey of the phenomenon of the “power couple” in Greco-Roman antiquity....
ABSTRACT: Marriage was the union performed with the intention to establishing a family. Among the Ro...
SUMMARY A total of 26 554 Egyptians was ascertained to study the incidence of consanguineous marriag...
Many societies have a normative preference for close-kin marriage of one or another variety. Whether...
For at least two hundred and fifty years, many men in the Roman province of Egypt married their full...
Marriage among the Romans could occur at quite an early age, according to modern standards. Bethroth...
This project examines a variety of documentary evidence preserved on papyrus in order to discern the...
Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of a...
In a conference on the subject of Family in Antiquity to raise a discussion on incest can be conside...
International audienceThis paper takes into consideration the problems surrounding the transfer of f...
The author's agreement with the publisher states: "After publication of the Work, the Author will ha...
In Greece and Rome the head of the family had special responsibility for ensuring continuity, which ...
A Roman family consisted of the pater familias, his wedded wife, two or three children, house slaves...
There are many controversies that surround the problem of incest in Ancient Egypt. One of them is be...
The Roman Senate abrogated the long-standing ban of marriages between paternal uncle and niece to le...
This chapter offers a first survey of the phenomenon of the “power couple” in Greco-Roman antiquity....
ABSTRACT: Marriage was the union performed with the intention to establishing a family. Among the Ro...
SUMMARY A total of 26 554 Egyptians was ascertained to study the incidence of consanguineous marriag...