KINGSHIP AND THE GODS - HENRI FRANKFORT
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Kingship and the GodsHenri Frankfort
A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion as the Integration of Society and Nature
With a new Preface by Samuel Noah Kramer
Later Printing - First Published in 1948
Pictorial Paperbound
Item Description:Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 1978
Book Condition: Good/Lightly Bumped Corners/Lightly Rubbed
Library Stamp on End Paper
Frontispiece: Photographic Image of Khafre
Photographic Illustrations Throughout
Royal Octavo
444 Pages
This classic study clearly establishes a fundamental difference in viewpoint between the peoples of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. By examining the forms of kingship which evolved in the two countries, Frankfort discovered that beneath resemblances fostered by similar cultural growth and geographical location lay differences based partly upon the natural conditions under which each society developed. The river flood which annually renewed life in the Nile Valley gave Egyptians a cheerful confidence in the permanence of established things and faith in life after death. Their Mesopotamian contemporaries, however, viewed anxiously the harsh, hostile workings of nature. Franks superb work, first published in 1948 and now supplemented with a preface by Samuel Noah Kramer, demonstrates how the Egyptian and Mesopotamian attitudes toward nature related to their concept of kingship. In both countries the people regarded the king as their mediator with the gods, but in Mesopotamia the king was only the foremost citizen, while in Egypt the ruler was a divine descendant of the gods and the earthly representative of the God Horus.
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