12-12-2006, 09:47 AM
Greetings!
I am 2/3 into my new novel (started during Nanowrimo), Revolt!, depicting the Ionian Revolt basically from a Persian perspective.
(I'll let you know when I'm done with it, and so on, of course)
In the meantime, there's an issue I haven't been able to "fix" from my sources (still pending Briant's book, sadly, but it's on the list, of course): I am about to write about a marriage and I'm not sure it would be legit or too uncommon:
The situation: youngest brother with oldest daughter of oldest brother with (this is: the uncle and the girl (niece?)). Due to this situation, he is just 3-4 years older than she is.
Now, does anyone know if this would be forbidden or too uncommon? We know of kings marrying sisters and other family, but they were kings, after all, these are "just" Persian nobility, and I'm afraid of incest...
Help very much appreciated, thanks!
PS- edited to fix a typo in the subject line
I am 2/3 into my new novel (started during Nanowrimo), Revolt!, depicting the Ionian Revolt basically from a Persian perspective.
(I'll let you know when I'm done with it, and so on, of course)
In the meantime, there's an issue I haven't been able to "fix" from my sources (still pending Briant's book, sadly, but it's on the list, of course): I am about to write about a marriage and I'm not sure it would be legit or too uncommon:
The situation: youngest brother with oldest daughter of oldest brother with (this is: the uncle and the girl (niece?)). Due to this situation, he is just 3-4 years older than she is.
Now, does anyone know if this would be forbidden or too uncommon? We know of kings marrying sisters and other family, but they were kings, after all, these are "just" Persian nobility, and I'm afraid of incest...
Help very much appreciated, thanks!
PS- edited to fix a typo in the subject line
Episkopos P. Lilius Frugius Simius Excalibor, :. V. S. C., Pontifex Maximus, Max Disc Eccl
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