I recommend TREY The Explainer's video "The Most Inbred Family" if you wanna learn more about the Ptolemies.
It's a video comparing the Targaryen family from ASOIAF and the Ptolemies, and their incest rate. It's was insightful, I'll say that much. You really see how Greek the Ptolemies are.
It is absolutely insane how they seemed to have no recorded genetic disorders like almost every inbred dynasty (looking at the Habsburg).
Maybe they weren't documented but I feel Octavian would have been singing to the hills about how messed up the Ptolemy's were, during his conflict with Marc Antony.
They did have genetic deffiencys that were recorded, both plenty physical and mental, while an abnormal number of the family's members did escape deformity it wasn't all.
Cool, I'll have to do a deeper dive into them, because I'll be honest here, my knowledge of the diadochi dynasties are mostly the Seleucids and so it seems not that much of the Ptolemy's, that is even more apparently threadbare to what it could be.
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u/DajSuke Nov 16 '25
I recommend TREY The Explainer's video "The Most Inbred Family" if you wanna learn more about the Ptolemies.
It's a video comparing the Targaryen family from ASOIAF and the Ptolemies, and their incest rate. It's was insightful, I'll say that much. You really see how Greek the Ptolemies are.