Title: The oriental origin of 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"--
Subjects: Divine right of kings, Kings and rulers
Places: Greece