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Accomplished director Atom Egoyan remade the 2003 French film Nathalie with Julianne Moore as a spouse suspecting her husband (Liam Neeson) of cheating, and Amanda Seyfried as the other lady. Herodotus reported that every Persian royal or aristocratic man had several wives and concubines who came to the husband on a well-regulated, flip by flip basis. The Old Persian word for the harem is not attested, but it can be reconstructed as xšapā.stāna (lit. In line with Sasanian legend, of all of the Persian kings, Khosrow II was probably the most extravagant in his hedonism. However, while the Sasanian kings had harems, girls in the Sassanid Empire in general did not dwell in seclusion; elaborate harems had been detested and appear to have been exceptions to the rule, which is illustrated by the fact that massive harems - once they occurred - were abhorred by the general public. The rising seclusion of girls was illustrated by the facility battle between the Caliph Al-Hadi and his mother Al-Khayzuran, who refused to stay in seclusion however instead challenged the ability of the Caliph by giving her own audiences to male supplicants and officials and thus mixing with men. |
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