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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Síða xiv
... evidence and the reworking or omission of unsuitable details . All presenters of Akhenaten , schol- arly or otherwise , have distinctive personal , cultural and generic biases that shape their perceptions . In this book I spend a lot of ...
... evidence and the reworking or omission of unsuitable details . All presenters of Akhenaten , schol- arly or otherwise , have distinctive personal , cultural and generic biases that shape their perceptions . In this book I spend a lot of ...
Síða 2
... evidence and the reworking or omission of unsuitable details . All presenters of Akhenaten , schol- arly or otherwise , have distinctive personal , cultural and generic biases that shape their perceptions . In this book I spend a lot of ...
... evidence and the reworking or omission of unsuitable details . All presenters of Akhenaten , schol- arly or otherwise , have distinctive personal , cultural and generic biases that shape their perceptions . In this book I spend a lot of ...
Síða 7
... evidence at all , and how he is seen as revolutionary and innovatory , whereas much of what he did can also be seen as derivative and conservative . I also look at literal readings of Amarna art , based on an inapplic- able notion of ...
... evidence at all , and how he is seen as revolutionary and innovatory , whereas much of what he did can also be seen as derivative and conservative . I also look at literal readings of Amarna art , based on an inapplic- able notion of ...
Síða 13
... evidence . Also , I do not want to write another over - personalised psychobiography of Akhenaten , reconstructing his motiv- ations , feelings and emotions . It would be marvellous if one could say with authority that Akhenaten had ...
... evidence . Also , I do not want to write another over - personalised psychobiography of Akhenaten , reconstructing his motiv- ations , feelings and emotions . It would be marvellous if one could say with authority that Akhenaten had ...
Síða 14
... evidence for any extended period of joint rule between Amunhotep III and Akhenaten is circumstantial , or based on art - historical criteria which are so far not generally accepted . Temple - building programmes in honour of the Aten ...
... evidence for any extended period of joint rule between Amunhotep III and Akhenaten is circumstantial , or based on art - historical criteria which are so far not generally accepted . Temple - building programmes in honour of the Aten ...
Efni
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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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