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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... monuments , including parts of Akhenaten's tomb , have been destroyed in local disputes , or resignified according to Islamic culture the boundary stelae are supposed to mark the mouths of caves filled with treasure , for instance ...
... monuments , including parts of Akhenaten's tomb , have been destroyed in local disputes , or resignified according to Islamic culture the boundary stelae are supposed to mark the mouths of caves filled with treasure , for instance ...
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... monuments from the early part of Akhenaten's reign at east Karnak . It seems to me that his work on these monuments influ- enced his conception of Akhenaten in Akhenaten , the Heretic King , as an inflexible ideologue who deserved his ...
... monuments from the early part of Akhenaten's reign at east Karnak . It seems to me that his work on these monuments influ- enced his conception of Akhenaten in Akhenaten , the Heretic King , as an inflexible ideologue who deserved his ...
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... monuments have yielded some of the most iconic images of Akhenaten ( see Plate 2.1 ) . Apparently showing him with both male and female physical characteristics , they have spawned a host of theories about Akhenaten's sexual biology and ...
... monuments have yielded some of the most iconic images of Akhenaten ( see Plate 2.1 ) . Apparently showing him with both male and female physical characteristics , they have spawned a host of theories about Akhenaten's sexual biology and ...
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... monuments throughout Akhenaten's reign . Her name , ' The - radiant - one - has - come ' , is curi- ous . Other Egyptian names ending in -iti honour important goddesses , such as Bastiti , ' Bast - has - come ' . The nefer- element of ...
... monuments throughout Akhenaten's reign . Her name , ' The - radiant - one - has - come ' , is curi- ous . Other Egyptian names ending in -iti honour important goddesses , such as Bastiti , ' Bast - has - come ' . The nefer- element of ...
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... monuments , especially statuary , to impart a sense of lineage and continuity with the past . There is no definite evidence for man - made monuments being brought to Akhet - aten , though the importing of the divine bull of Heliopolis ...
... monuments , especially statuary , to impart a sense of lineage and continuity with the past . There is no definite evidence for man - made monuments being brought to Akhet - aten , though the importing of the divine bull of Heliopolis ...
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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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