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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... created . This book is the first attempt to look at them and try to understand why their makers chose Akhenaten . I want to know what interests are served , at particular historical moments , by summoning up the ghost of a dead Egyptian ...
... created . This book is the first attempt to look at them and try to understand why their makers chose Akhenaten . I want to know what interests are served , at particular historical moments , by summoning up the ghost of a dead Egyptian ...
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... created . I look at how Akhenaten's childhood and family dynamics have been re - created on the basis of no evidence at all , and how he is seen as revolutionary and innovatory , whereas much of what he did can also be seen as ...
... created . I look at how Akhenaten's childhood and family dynamics have been re - created on the basis of no evidence at all , and how he is seen as revolutionary and innovatory , whereas much of what he did can also be seen as ...
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... Creating a new sacral landscape at Akhet - aten must have been a shock to the Egyptians , who liked to have their holy spaces sanctified by a long history of religious use rather than created afresh . " When- ever new cities were created ...
... Creating a new sacral landscape at Akhet - aten must have been a shock to the Egyptians , who liked to have their holy spaces sanctified by a long history of religious use rather than created afresh . " When- ever new cities were created ...
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... created his father's ceremonial stage in a unique way , the result being a ' symmetrically divided site , its primary orientation centred on a temple and a tomb'.14 The boundary stelae , temples and the royal tomb appar- ently form a ...
... created his father's ceremonial stage in a unique way , the result being a ' symmetrically divided site , its primary orientation centred on a temple and a tomb'.14 The boundary stelae , temples and the royal tomb appar- ently form a ...
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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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