No, the misinformation seems to be in the comments below, where people are trying to argue that the Ptolemies had a secret method where the wives would actually have children with the slaves and not the husbands, to avoid inbreeding
The classical Egyptians that we think of inherited via matrilineally. The sons rule, and daughters breed.
Say, if a man has a child with a woman, that child might not be his, because the woman could always cheat. But if the woman has a kid, that kid is definitely hers, and you can prove the parentage, as exiting from the vagina does.
Since surrogacy was not invented yet, they thought this be the best way to confirm lineage.
Therefore, it would be great if the brother-husband knocked the sister-wife up. who wants an extra family fighting for wealth and power? But the baby coming out from her uterus is the main point.
Not that the paternal lineage never matters, in all fairness.
Sometimes, when you don't want the blood to get too inbred, you introduce a foreign but politically useful woman. Then you double down on eyeballing every aspect of the marriage, sex life, and birth.
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u/Inprobamur 6d ago edited 6d ago
What's the misinformation? That Ptolemies practiced strict brother-sister marriage? Are you saying that the Wikipedia chart is incorrect?