In the Garden of the Gods: Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

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

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

274 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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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 bestow...

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