Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient EgyptRoutledge, 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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... central problem that his biography is rarely written with any neutrality . More than any other period of Egyptian history , Akhenaten's reign evokes emotive narratives and personalised responses , even from conserva- tive academics who ...
... central problem that his biography is rarely written with any neutrality . More than any other period of Egyptian history , Akhenaten's reign evokes emotive narratives and personalised responses , even from conserva- tive academics who ...
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... central city , he drove in a chariot along a road cutting through the centre of Akhet - aten . As he drove along , the people saw him and made obeisance to him , just as the people of the created world worshipped the Aten . Akhenaten's ...
... central city , he drove in a chariot along a road cutting through the centre of Akhet - aten . As he drove along , the people saw him and made obeisance to him , just as the people of the created world worshipped the Aten . Akhenaten's ...
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... central pal- ace at Akhet - aten , between years 6 and 9 of Akhenaten's reign . Height 56 cm width 52 cm . Petrie Museum of Archaeology , University College London , inv . UC 401 . may be an epistolary cliché invoking the Aten as the ...
... central pal- ace at Akhet - aten , between years 6 and 9 of Akhenaten's reign . Height 56 cm width 52 cm . Petrie Museum of Archaeology , University College London , inv . UC 401 . may be an epistolary cliché invoking the Aten as the ...
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... central city and the workmen's village probably looked very different from the clean , pristine reconstructions often reproduced in books ( see Plate 3.1 ) . Industrial , domestic and ritual space was not strictly demarcated . There ...
... central city and the workmen's village probably looked very different from the clean , pristine reconstructions often reproduced in books ( see Plate 3.1 ) . Industrial , domestic and ritual space was not strictly demarcated . There ...
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The archaeologies of Amarna | 56 |
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Protestants psychoanalysts and Fascists | 95 |
Race and religion | 117 |
Literary Akhenatens | 139 |
Sexualities | 168 |
Epilogue | 183 |
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