Editing Polyandry (section)

===Europe===
[[File:Sepulchral inscription of Allia Potestas (1st–4th century CE) - 200505.jpg|thumb|Sepulchral inscription for Allia Potestas, ''Museo Epigrafico'', ''Terme di Diocleziano'', Rome]]
*Reporting on the mating patterns in ancient [[Greece]], specifically [[Sparta]], [[Plutarch]] writes: "Thus if an older man with a young wife should take a liking to one of the well-bred young men and approve of him, he might well introduce him to her so as to fill her with noble sperm and then adopt the child as his own. Conversely a respectable man who admired someone else’s wife noted for her lovely children and her good sense, might gain the husband’s permission to sleep with her thereby planting in fruitful soil, so to speak, and producing fine children who would be linked to fine ancestors by blood and family."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vico.wikispaces.com/Sparta63|title=Sparta63|website=Vico.wikispaces.com|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=28 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728011840/https://vico.wikispaces.com/Sparta63|url-status=live}}</ref>
*"According to Julius Caesar, it was customary among the ancient Britons for brothers, and sometimes for fathers and sons, to have their wives in common."<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/1/9/3/11934/11934.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625021451/http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/1/9/3/11934/11934.htm |url-status=dead |first=Henry Theophilus |last=Finck |title=Primitive Love and Love-Stories |date=1899 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |archivedate=June 25, 2010}}</ref>
*"Polyandry prevailed among the Lacedaemonians according to Polybius."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924021847060/cu31924021847060_djvu.txt John Ferguson McLennon : ''Studies in Ancient History''. Macmillan & Co., 1886.] p. xxv</ref> (Polybius vii.7.732, following Timæus)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2078&chapter=157846&layout=html&Itemid=27 |title=Henry Sumner Maine : ''Dissertations on Early Law and Custom''. London: John Murray, 1883. Chapter IV, Note B. |access-date=2009-12-11 |archive-date=2011-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211125743/http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2078&chapter=157846&layout=html&Itemid=27 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*"The matrons of Rome flocked in great crowds to the Senate, begging with tears and entreaties that one woman should be married to two men."<ref>Macrobius (translated by Percival V. Davies): ''The Saturnalia''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, p. 53 (1:6:22)</ref>
*The gravestone of [[Allia Potestas]], a woman from [[Perusia]], describes how she lived peacefully with two lovers, one of whom immortalized her in his famous epigraphic eulogy, dating (probably) from the second century.<ref name="horsfall85">Horsfall, N:''CIL VI 37965 = CLE 1988 (Epitaph of Allia Potestas): A Commentary'', ZPE 61: 1985</ref>