ISBN-13: 9780367879433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.
ISBN-13: 9780367879433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.
Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids, 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