Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt

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Routledge, 1. maí 2014 - 240 síður
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.

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Akhenaten in the mirror
1
Histories of Akhenaten
16
The archaeologies of Amarna
56
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62
Protestants psychoanalysts and Fascists
95
Race and religion
117
Literary Akhenatens
139
Sexualities
168
Epilogue
183
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