Editing Polygamy (section)

===Zoroastrianism===
{{See also|Xwedodah}}
There is limited information about polygamy in Zoroastrian tradition. There is no passage in the [[Avesta]] that favors polygamy or [[monogamy]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sanjana|first=Darab Datsur Peshotan|title=The Position of Zoroastrian Women in Remote Antiquity|year=1982|location=Bombay|pages=40–43}}</ref> However, tradition holds that [[Zoroaster]] had three wives.<ref>{{cite book | last=West | first=M. L. | title=The Hymns of Zoroaster: a New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran. | publisher=I.B. Tauris | isbn=978-1-84885-505-2 | url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/816830360 | date=2010 | others=With Introduction and Commentary by M.L. West. | oclc=816830360 | access-date=27 January 2021 | archive-date=15 April 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415020553/https://www.worldcat.org/title/hymns-of-zoroaster-a-new-translation-of-the-most-ancient-sacred-texts-of-iran/oclc/816830360 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Boyce, Mary.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33664728|title=A history of Zoroastrianism|date=1996|publisher=E.J. Brill|isbn=90-04-10474-7|edition=3rd impression, with corrections|location=Leiden|oclc=33664728|access-date=27 January 2021|archive-date=5 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205220523/https://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-zoroastrianism/oclc/33664728|url-status=live}}</ref> Polygamy appears to have been a right of spiritual dignitaries and aristocrats.<ref>{{cite web|date=2012-01-24|title=Family Law|url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/family-law#i|access-date=2021-01-27|website=iranicaonline.org|archive-date=30 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130053945/https://iranicaonline.org/articles/family-law#i|url-status=live}}</ref> It is mentioned in foreign writings, such as the [[letter of Tansar]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Boyce|first=Mary|url=https://archive.org/details/TheLetterOfTansarTranslatedByMaryBoyce|title=The Letter of Tansar}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=For those who were the most virtuous and pious, he chose out princesses, that all might desire virtue and chastity. He was content with one or two wives for himself, and disapproved of having many children, saying: to have many children is fitting for the populace, but kings and nobles take pride in the smallness of their families|author=Tansar|title=|source=}}

It was also written about in the 4th century CE by the Roman soldier and historian [[Ammianus Marcellinus]], writing about Zoroastrian communities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ammianus Marcellinus|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/23*.html|access-date=2021-01-27|website=penelope.uchicago.edu}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=Each man according to his means contracts many or few marriages, whence their affection, divided as it is among various objects, grows cold.|author=Ammianus Marcellinus|title=|source=}}