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[โ€“] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought this was just the ptolemy line, since they were Hellenic and didn't want to even learn the Egyptian language, let alone have Egyptian kids

[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Nope, long history of it in Egypt, dating back to at least the 3rd millennium BCE. It was, notably, one of the Egyptian practices the Ptolemaic dynasty adopted despite being, as you mentioned... aggressively Hellenic.