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It is suggested that Voltaire's drama of Sémiramis, the legendary Queen of Babylon, highlights a characteristic of human nature, wherein the spouse would be destroyed, and replaced by a 'pure and chaste' offspring.
This (collusive) response of the parent to the child's 'offer' suggests a ubiquitous phenomenon analogous to the Oedipus complex.