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Egyptian History

Cleopatra, Royal Incest, and the ‘Yuck Response’ – Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Posted on 17 March 2025 by Henry Anderson

This post by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones discusses the Ptolemaic practice of royal incest and why such socially taboo behaviour occurred. In the popular imagination, Cleopatra will always be romantically entwined with […]