The Earliest States of Eastern Europe
DG-2012, 239-257

Культ правителя и царская власть в эпоху эллинизма

K. Y. Nefyedov

In the article an attempt is made to discover relationship
between ruler cult and kingship in the age of Hellenism. The author shown
that Hellenistic ruler cult was not a deifi cation of power or ruler, but a cult
of monarch personality, aimed to guarantee him personal legitimacy. Godlike
worship, used ritual symbolic, created of visibility of compliance of
ruler with the Greek ideal of true king. It made possible to compensate
weakness of the normative basis of the Hellenistic kingship.

Keywords:
Hellenism, ruler cult, Hellenistic monarchy, kingship, legitimacy of power
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