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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... interest in Akhenaten or in the archaeology of ancient Egypt . Dominic Montserrat is a lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University . His previous books include Sex and Society in Greco - Roman Egypt ( 1996 ) , and edited ...
... interest in Akhenaten or in the archaeology of ancient Egypt . Dominic Montserrat is a lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University . His previous books include Sex and Society in Greco - Roman Egypt ( 1996 ) , and edited ...
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... interest in Akhenaten ; Anette Hang ; Elinor van Heyningan ; Tom Holland for letting me interview him and sending me The Sleeper in the Sands in advance of publication ; Lisa Hopkins for some invaluable sources I would otherwise never ...
... interest in Akhenaten ; Anette Hang ; Elinor van Heyningan ; Tom Holland for letting me interview him and sending me The Sleeper in the Sands in advance of publication ; Lisa Hopkins for some invaluable sources I would otherwise never ...
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... interests are served , at particular historical moments , by summoning up the ghost of a dead Egyptian king . These representations of him are not struc- tured by Akhenaten's own history but by struggles for legitimation and author- ity ...
... interests are served , at particular historical moments , by summoning up the ghost of a dead Egyptian king . These representations of him are not struc- tured by Akhenaten's own history but by struggles for legitimation and author- ity ...
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... interest in the excavations at Amarna was at its height . The writer was H. R. Hall ( 1873-1930 ) , Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum , and author of The Ancient History of the Near East from the Earliest Times to the ...
... interest in the excavations at Amarna was at its height . The writer was H. R. Hall ( 1873-1930 ) , Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum , and author of The Ancient History of the Near East from the Earliest Times to the ...
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... interests and circumstances of his time . After Christ , follow Alexander the Great , Caesar , Moham- med , Luther , Napoleon and ... ' the lost infant ' , Hitler . To the left , marvelous Nefertiti , wife of Akhenaten , I imagine that ...
... interests and circumstances of his time . After Christ , follow Alexander the Great , Caesar , Moham- med , Luther , Napoleon and ... ' the lost infant ' , Hitler . To the left , marvelous Nefertiti , wife of Akhenaten , I imagine that ...
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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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