Ancient Near Eastern forms of monarchy getting oversimplified every freakin' time:pic.twitter.com/W3oVTXN77K
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No one: Absolutely no one: That One Student: "Oh, people back then thought all of the kings were living gods so they had UNLIMITED POWER!" Me: Sigh. Let's start back at the beginning...pic.twitter.com/oN7lnSBEzh
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Even including Egypt, most ANE kings did not have pretensions of divinity. Especially - say it with me now -
Achaemenid Great Kings Weren't Living Gods.
And yes, I literally have my in-person classes chant that back to me to make the point.Näytä tämä ketju -
Moreover, legitimacy is more complex than declaring that you either 1) a god, or 2) chosen by the gods! You have to convince somebody of that, which brings us right back to "complex systems of generating royal legitimacy through judicial, religious and military activity..."
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