Love, Sex, & Marriage in Ancient Mesopotamia: Relationships in the Ancient World
While romantic love did play a part in Mesopotamian marriages, it is true that, according to the customs and expectations of Mesopotamian society, marriage was a legal contract between the father of a girl and another man or, more commonly, between two families, which functioned as the foundation of a community. As the primary purpose of marriage, as far as society was concerned, was to produce children, a man could add as many concubines to his home as he could afford. The continuation of the family line was most important, and so concubines were fairly common in cases where the wife was ill, in generally poor health, or infertile.
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