Imperial cult of ancient Rome Scipio Africanus' time. The Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids claimed godhood as long as they lasted; they may have been influenced in this by the Persian and Egyptian traditions of divine kings – although the Ptolemies had separate cults in Egyptian polytheism, as Pharaoh, and in the Greek. Not all Greek dynasties made the same claims; the descendants of Demetrius, who were kings of Macedon and dominated the mainland of Greece, did not claim godhead or worship Alexander (cf. Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great). The Roman magistrates who conquered the Greek world were fitted into this tradition; games
The Rulers members realize what he is implying too late; as they rush to trigger a weapon to kill him, Latham orders the guards to shoot the device. The Rulers has not been widely reviewed. One of the few to mention it was a 1952 review of "Destination: Universe" in Galaxy Science Fiction which mentions the "coldness of his writing and the woodenness of his characterizations" and calling the story as one "from his Complicated Periods". The Rulers The Rulers is a golden age science fiction short story by A. E. van Vogt, originally published in "Astounding" in March 1946. It was