discovery channel on astro was talking about egypt (one of my most wanted to go destination), and mentioned something about cleopatra on how gorgeous she was when she seduced julius caesar.
there i went to wikipedia and searched for cleopatra. and found this family tree of hers...
the great last queen of egypt cleopatra vii (highlighted in green) has a messed up family if she lives in today's world. i can accept her part as she wanted to rule egypt so she married to her brothers (yes, brothers, 2 of them.), but she probably never slept with them.
but... please look at the red area...
what did berenice iii call cleopatra selene:
1. mom??
2. my husband's wife? (ptolemy x)
3. my husband's mom? (ptolemy xi, who's her brother also)
and the poor kid of hers, cleopatra v must have grown up screwy as well. imagine a family gathering in today's world. she would have to call these people:
cleopatra selene: grandma, dad's other woman, my step father's mom.
ptolemy x: dad, grand uncle
ptolemy xi: step dad, uncle
but i guess this would never happened.
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ps:I ALWAYS WANT TO GO EGYPT TOO!!!
wahhh at first i tot the horizontal line is brother sister... but then :x :x... haha now i know 1 woman really can marries more than 1 man kakakakaka proven!!!
That is seriously FCKED up! Can u imagion how many probles they all had...im serprised they were all able to talk let alone run a country with that amount of inbreeding :I lol
Most of the world is used to a Patriarchal view of things. What you have to understand when looking at the ancient Egyptian rulers/family trees is that the Ancient Egyptians were a MATRIARCHAL society. what this means is that it wasn't important to society/culture/power who your father was, but who your mother and uncle were. The traditional way to inherit the throne/power was to be a blood reletive of the royal princess/queen. So you could be her brother, her husband, or her son. She had to have a male reletive to rule per Egyptian law, as women were not permitted to rule alone traditionally. This is why all the ancient Egyptains monarchs throughout history traditionally married their sister/brother. Sometimes these unions were consumated but I believe that often they were not. A King who had married his sister might appoint his son by a consort as his heir and that son might marry the daughter of his father's sister, who may or may not have been his half sister, as who knows who the queen had slept with? Any child she had would be hers and royal. I do not think that Cleoptra VII (the famous one) slept with her brothers. Those unions were political, to ensure her throne.
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