Three myths of kingship in early Greece and the ancient Near East: the servant, the lover, and the fool
"On the basis of recently discovered sources and original research, this book identifies and analyses three story-patterns associated with human kingship in early Greek and ancient Near Eastern myth. The first of these, the 'Myth of the Servant', was used to explain how an individual...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "On the basis of recently discovered sources and original research, this book identifies and analyses three story-patterns associated with human kingship in early Greek and ancient Near Eastern myth. The first of these, the 'Myth of the Servant', was used to explain how an individual of non-royal lineage rose to power from obscure origins. The second myth, on the 'Goddess and the Herdsman', made the fundamental claim that the ruler engaged in a sexual relationship with a powerful female deity. Third, although kings are often central to the ancient literary evidence, the texts themselves were usually authored by others, such as poets, priests, prophets or scholars; like kings, these characters similarly tended to base their authority on their ability to articulate and enact the divine will. The stage was thus set for narratives of conflict between kings and other intermediaries of the gods." |
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Contents page vi vii Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction I I The Myth of the Servant 13 1.1 Sargon of Akkad 1.2 The Hurro-Hittite Theogony and EarlyHittite Kingship 1.3 Cyrus the Great 1.4 Gyges of Lydia 1.5 David of Israel and Judah 1.6 Semiramis of Assyria 1.7 Epilogue: The Myth of the Servantandthe Ruler Exposed at Birth 2 The Myth of the Goddess and the Herdsman 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 3 The Early Evidence Inana and Dumuzi Inana and the Mortal King The Myth in Later Mesopotamia The Myth beyond Mesopotamia Epilogue: From Greece to Rome 76 80 82 100 122 138 170 King, Priest and Poet 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 14 28 36 51 58 65 67 172 Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Israel Early Greece Comparative Perspectives Epilogue: The Early Greek Poets and Their Works 174 182 188 234 245 248 288 291 References Index Locorum Subject Index V |
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