The oriental origin of Hellenistic kingship
By: by Calvin Wells McEwan ....
Series: The Oriental institute of the University of Chicago.  Studies in ancient oriental civilization,; no. 13
Published: 1934
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Divine right of kings.; Kings and rulers.; Greece -- Kings and rulers.
Other titles: Hellenistic kingship.
Description: "This essay attempts to suggest the prehistoric evolution of kingship as an institution, to describe divine kingship as found in the ancient Near East in its various shades and degrees, its ramifications and diffusions, and finally to demonstrate that the recurrence of this institution in the sophisticated culture of the Hellenistic world was a conscious adoption from the East of a convenient political form"--
Notes: Bibliography : p.xi-xii.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1931.
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