TWO LANDS, ONE RULER? The Tang-i Var Inscription and the issue of joint rule in the 25th Dynasty
Was Kushite kingship ideology based on a notion of joint rule? To what extent did the 25th Dynasty adopt kingship ideology from Egypt? Further, how did the Kushites govern Egypt and Kush and did one king rule over both lands?
Ramesses, "King of Kings": On the Context and Interpretation of Royal Colossi
The nature of kingship has been among the most intensively studied aspects of Egyptian culture and cannot be adequately addressed here. My interest lies specifically in the creation, definition and separation of distinct royal identities, mobilised through the colossi, which became the objects of cult. It is an axiom that the king of Egypt was held to be divine, although the concept was evidently mutable over time.
The Concept of God/the Gods as King in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
The first section of this paper will survey some of the texts which archeologists have found in the ancient Near Eastern world to see how men describe their gods. Because the ancient world had so many gods, because of the large number of texts and because of the complexity of trying to reproduce an accurate conceptualization of a term like “god,” there will be no attempt to present a total picture of each god, during each period, as it was seen by each different class group within the society.
Greek images of monarchy and their influence on Rome from Alexander to Augustus
This inter-disciplinary thesis traces the influence of Greek images of monarchy on Rome, between 323 B.C. and A.D. 14.
DEMOCRATISATION OF GREEK SOCIETY DURING THE ARCHAIC ERA?
In the modern scholarship of the Ancient Greek history there is a well known and well established conception of an universal democratisation of Greek society during the Archaic and Early Classical periods. It could be summarised roughly as follows:1 Af- ter the fall of the Bronze Age Mycenaean civilisation, in the so-called Dark Ages (11th to 8th centuries B.C.), the Greek communities were governed by the kings (basilees).
The dating of Pheidon in antiquity
The dating of the Argive tyrant (or king) Pheidon, a central figure of early Greek history according to the ancients, has long been one of the most disputed questions in the history of Archaic Greece. The reason is obvious – even in antiquity there was no agreement on this point.