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grbs-16149	Lenfant, Dominique	Polygamy in Greek Views of Persians	2019	23	.pdf	application/pdf	8635	417	67	The first point to make is that Herodotus’ generalization, in which he attributes many wives to each of the Persians (1.135), stands entirely alone (except for a passage of Strabo, who draws upon him).18 If we set that passage apart, in the whole of Greek literature, only kings are assigned several wives. The only text which suggests an explanation of the Persians’ ideas about polygamy is the passage in which Herodotus mentions the Persian custom of having many wives and many concubines (1.135), where the context into which it is inserted might give some clues.	cache/grbs-16149.pdf	txt/grbs-16149.txt