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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... known to even more people . Nothing illustrates this process of familiarisation better than a letter written on 3 May 1922 , when interest in the excavations at Amarna was at its height . The writer was H. R. Hall ( 1873-1930 ) , Keeper ...
... known to even more people . Nothing illustrates this process of familiarisation better than a letter written on 3 May 1922 , when interest in the excavations at Amarna was at its height . The writer was H. R. Hall ( 1873-1930 ) , Keeper ...
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... known about Akhenaten before turning to the business of how myths about him are 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 ...
... known about Akhenaten before turning to the business of how myths about him are 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 ...
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... known in their day was because they wrote popular books which presented Egyptian archaeology in an inclusive and exciting way . But the growth in academic specialisation since then means that few modern scholars attempt such projects ...
... known in their day was because they wrote popular books which presented Egyptian archaeology in an inclusive and exciting way . But the growth in academic specialisation since then means that few modern scholars attempt such projects ...
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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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