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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... important for the professional community to listen to non- specialists . The two groups are not in conflict , or at least they need not be , and the dialogue can be mutually enriching . Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how ...
... important for the professional community to listen to non- specialists . The two groups are not in conflict , or at least they need not be , and the dialogue can be mutually enriching . Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how ...
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... importance of the issues discussed through them than their historicity . In that respect Akhenaten is no exception he is a sign rather than a person . But in another way he is a unique sign . Unlike those other iconic figures ...
... importance of the issues discussed through them than their historicity . In that respect Akhenaten is no exception he is a sign rather than a person . But in another way he is a unique sign . Unlike those other iconic figures ...
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... important for the professional community to listen to non- specialists . The two groups are not in conflict , or at least they need not be , and the dialogue can be mutually enriching . Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how ...
... important for the professional community to listen to non- specialists . The two groups are not in conflict , or at least they need not be , and the dialogue can be mutually enriching . Writing this book reminded me repeat- edly of how ...
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... importance than any other , Amenhotep IV can be seen , who was later called Akhenaten ... later Moses , who according to Freud's analysis , gave his adopted people the same religion as that of Akhenaten , a little altered according to ...
... importance than any other , Amenhotep IV can be seen , who was later called Akhenaten ... later Moses , who according to Freud's analysis , gave his adopted people the same religion as that of Akhenaten , a little altered according to ...
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... important to give a short account of his reign and examine the histories that fantasy takes as its point of ... important focus . From the 1850s Amarna figured in a variety of popular publica- tions , especially religious books produced ...
... important to give a short account of his reign and examine the histories that fantasy takes as its point of ... important focus . From the 1850s Amarna figured in a variety of popular publica- tions , especially religious books produced ...
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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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