In The Myth of the Birth of the Hero¸ psychologist Otto Rank makes much of the similarities between the legends of Romulus, Moses, and this man, who was supposed to have been placed in a basket by his priestess mother and rescued from the Euphrates by the gardener Akki. Eventually rising through his own merits to become royal cupbearer of King Ur-Zababa of Kish, he took the throne himself and destroyed Lugalzagesi of Uruk. For 10 points name this ancient ruler and soldier, whose grandson and successor Naram-Sin assumed the throne of both Agade and the Akkadian Empire he had built.
In The Myth of the Birth of the Hero¸ psychologist Otto Rank makes much of the similarities between the legends of Romulus, Moses, and this man, who was supposed to have been placed in a basket by his priestess mother and rescued from the Euphrates by the gardener Akki. Eventually rising through his own merits to become royal cupbearer of King Ur-Zababa of Kish, he took the throne himself and destroyed Lugalzagesi of Uruk. For 10 points name this ancient ruler and soldier, whose grandson and successor Naram-Sin assumed the throne of both Agade and the Akkadian Empire he had built.
In The Myth of the Birth of the Hero¸ psychologist Otto Rank makes much of the similarities between the legends of Romulus, Moses, and this man, who was supposed to have been placed in a basket by his priestess mother and rescued from the Euphrates by the gardener Akki.
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