Download or read book The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship written by Calvin Wells McEwan and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This essay attempts to suggest the prehistoric evolution of kingship as an institution, to describe divine kingship as found in the ancient Near East in its various shades and degrees, its ramifications and diffusions, and finally to demonstrate that the recurrence of this institution in the sophisticated culture of the Hellenistic world was a conscious adoption from the East of a convenient political form"--