Divine Kingship Project with Dr. Marco Ferrario

Dr. Marco Ferrario, a post-doctoral fellow at UCL, returns to the podcast to discuss winning a Marie Curie scholarship for his project “GOOSH” (“God’s Shadows: Anthropologies of Kingship in Hellenistic Central Asia”), his research aims to contextualize Hellenistic kingship beyond a solely Greek/Macedonian lens by integrating Persian legacies and Indian ideological templates, bridging historians’ approaches with recent anthropological theories of kingship, and he argues for a broader, socio-anthropological view of “divine kingship” based on perceived godlike capacities rather than simple god-human equivalence. We hope you enjoy this episode, and if you like what you hear, please give our show a 5-star rating, and review us on Apple or Spotify. Don't forget to follow the Pourdavoud Institute on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram or visit our website www.pourdavoud.ucla.edu! Check out his publications on Academia: https://unitn.academia.edu/MarcoFerrario Recorded & edited by Lexie Henning, original music by Brent Arehart, and artwork by Hadley Leasman.