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Familiarity breeds: incest and the Ptolemaic dynasty*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Sheila L. Ager
Sheila L. Ager
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University of Waterloo
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Abstract

This paper examines the problem of Ptolemaic incest from a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives. Specifically, it seeks to establish the following: that there is little in the ancient record to support the common claim that the Ptolemies suffered extensively from the deleterious genetic effects of inbreeding; that the various theories so far put forward as explanations for Ptolemaic incest offer at best only a partial rationale for this dynastic practice; that the most compelling rationale for Ptolemaic incest is to be found in complex, and perhaps unconscious, symbolic motivations analogous to those observed by anthropologists in other cultures; and finally, that, for the Ptolemies, incest was, like the truphê for which they were so notorious, a dynastic signature which highlighted their singularity and above all, their power.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 125 , November 2005 , pp. 1 - 34
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2005

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