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In the Garden of the Gods
- Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids
Af: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Engelsk
Bogcover for In the Garden of the Gods af Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, 9780367879433
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Engelsk
Sider:
276
ISBN-13:
9780367879433
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367879433
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Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2019
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
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Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2019
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In the Garden of the Gods

- Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids
Af: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Engelsk
Paperback 2019
Format:
Paperback
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Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later historical periods, through popular literature including the Epic of Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest times Near Eastern kings and their scribes adapted these metaphors to promote royal legitimacy in accordance with legendary exempla that highlighted the role of the king as the establisher of order and civilization. As another Gilgameš and, later, as a pious servant of Marduk, the king renewed divine favour for his subjects, enabling them to share the ''Garden of the Gods''. Seleucus and Antiochus found these cultural ideas, as they had evolved in the first millennium BCE, extremely useful in their efforts to establish their dynasty at Babylon. Far from playing down cultural differences, the book considers the ideological agendas of ancient Near Eastern empires as having been shaped mainly by class — rather than race-minded elites.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
276
ISBN-13:
9780367879433
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0367879433
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2019
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2019
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