02186    a2200373   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001500138072001500153072001600168072001500184072001400199072001500213072001500228072001400243072001400257072001300271072001200284072001300296072002100309072002100330072002200351100002900373245008600402250000600488260003200494300001000526520126100536999001501797131711775120250317111616.0250312042016GB        12           eng    a9781317117759  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 42.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aNHC2thema7 aQRS2thema7 aJHBZ2thema7 aNHB2thema7 aNK2thema7 aMBS2thema7 aHBLA12bic7 aHRKP2bic7 aJHBZ2bic7 aHBG2bic7 aHD2bic7 aMBS2bic7 aHIS0000002bisac7 aHIS0020002bisac7 a321.6093942bisac1 aEva Anagnostou-Laoutides10aIn the Garden of the GodsbModels of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20160707  a274 p  bExamining 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 Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest times Near Eastern kings and their scribes adapted these metaphors to promote royal legitimacy in accordance with legendary exempla that highlighted the role of the king as the establisher of order and civilization. As another Gilgameš and, later, as a pious servant of Marduk, the king renewed divine favour for his subjects, enabling them to share the 'Garden of the Gods'. Seleucus and Antiochus found these cultural ideas, as they had evolved in the first millennium BCE, extremely useful in their efforts to establish their dynasty at Babylon. Far from playing down cultural differences, the book considers the ideological agendas of ancient Near Eastern empires as having been shaped mainly by class — rather than race-minded elites.  c5432d5432