In the Garden of the Gods: Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

Book Overview

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 Gilgames and the Enuma...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879433
• ISBN13: 9780367879433
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"