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Caedus, the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt definitely had multiple wives. The main wife held the title of "Great Royal Wife", and it was her son who succeeded to the throne (if she had one. If she had a daughter, that daughter was married to the next pharaoh. The other wives were known as minor wives.
For the rest of the ancient Egyptian population, monogamy was the rule, although they did have divorce which wasn't hard to attain, but it was expensive. It's interesting to note that while adultery was grounds for divorce, only women could commit adultery. Married men were exempt from that.
With the Hebrews, childlessness was actually the most common cause for divorce, and polygamy was permitted although not practiced that much. |
Didn't know that about Egypt, thanks.
On Judaism childlessness was indeed a cause for divorce, but men who committed adultery could be stoned. Polygamy wasn't permitted, indeed you could be cast out of your tribe for it. It became permitted as a political advantage but not until the end of their reign in the Middle-East. For generations they only permitted one spouse. Even re-marriage was looked down on unless taken up by the blood relative of a spouse. Women could take them, but men usually didn't re-marry unless they had no offspring before the death.
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