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Gkikaki, Mairi (2014) The Royal sibling marriage of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II : incestuous and yet holy. Hephaistos, 2014 (31). pp. 113-121. ISSN 0174-2086.
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Abstract
In a conference on the subject of Family in Antiquity to raise a discussion on incest can be considered
at least provocative. Nevertheless the incestuous marriage of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe Philadelphus was no ordinary
case. The instigator was a hellenistic king and pharaoh to Egypt and is commonly accepted as one of the greatest
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Hephaistos | ||||||
Publisher: | Lit Verlag | ||||||
ISSN: | 0174-2086 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 2014 | ||||||
Number: | 31 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 113-121 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 August 2018 | ||||||
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