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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... novel Akhnaton , c . 1927 158 7.1 Winifred Brunton ( 1880–1959 ) , Smenkhkaré , c . 1929 171 7.2 Limestone trial piece from Amarna with the heads of two rulers 174 Figures 2.1 The names of the Aten 2.2 Akhenaten and Nefertiti about to ...
... novel Akhnaton , c . 1927 158 7.1 Winifred Brunton ( 1880–1959 ) , Smenkhkaré , c . 1929 171 7.2 Limestone trial piece from Amarna with the heads of two rulers 174 Figures 2.1 The names of the Aten 2.2 Akhenaten and Nefertiti about to ...
Síða 1
... novels , operas , poems , films , advertisements , fashion accessories and pieces of domestic kitsch have all been created . This book is the first attempt to look at them and try to understand why their makers chose Akhenaten . I want ...
... novels , operas , poems , films , advertisements , fashion accessories and pieces of domestic kitsch have all been created . This book is the first attempt to look at them and try to understand why their makers chose Akhenaten . I want ...
Síða 8
... novel about Akhenaten , al ' A'ish fi al - haqiqa ( Dweller in Truth ) . It remains to be seen how such factors as the proposed Akhenaten visitor centre at nearby Minieh , Islamic fundamentalism in Middle Egypt , and the continued ...
... novel about Akhenaten , al ' A'ish fi al - haqiqa ( Dweller in Truth ) . It remains to be seen how such factors as the proposed Akhenaten visitor centre at nearby Minieh , Islamic fundamentalism in Middle Egypt , and the continued ...
Síða 9
... novels . Akhenaten's story had sometimes been used to comment on modern political events , in rather the same way that Shakespeare critiqued Jacobean politics in plays set in the ancient world . But such treatments of Akhenaten are in ...
... novels . Akhenaten's story had sometimes been used to comment on modern political events , in rather the same way that Shakespeare critiqued Jacobean politics in plays set in the ancient world . But such treatments of Akhenaten are in ...
Síða 10
... novels are driven by an obsessive interest in Akhenat- en's sex life , and in the final chapter I look at how Akhenaten has been brought right up to date by exploring his sexuality . One manifestation is the gay Akhen- aten , part of ...
... novels are driven by an obsessive interest in Akhenat- en's sex life , and in the final chapter I look at how Akhenaten has been brought right up to date by exploring his sexuality . One manifestation is the gay Akhen- aten , part of ...
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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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