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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... politicians and theologians have looked to ancient Egypt to find justification , legitimation or authentication . Akhenaten is a uniquely attractive figure to draw on here . He is supposedly an individual , a real person whose ...
... politicians and theologians have looked to ancient Egypt to find justification , legitimation or authentication . Akhenaten is a uniquely attractive figure to draw on here . He is supposedly an individual , a real person whose ...
Síða 8
... political events . After Egypt became a British protectorate in 1882 , Amarna became a metaphor for how ancient Egypt , hopelessly degraded after stagnant centuries of Islam and Ottoman rule , would be transformed by western progress ...
... political events . After Egypt became a British protectorate in 1882 , Amarna became a metaphor for how ancient Egypt , hopelessly degraded after stagnant centuries of Islam and Ottoman rule , would be transformed by western progress ...
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... political and cultural movement which seeks to reclaim the origins of world civilisations in black Africa , and ... political events , in rather the same way that Shakespeare critiqued Jacobean politics in plays set in the ancient world ...
... political and cultural movement which seeks to reclaim the origins of world civilisations in black Africa , and ... political events , in rather the same way that Shakespeare critiqued Jacobean politics in plays set in the ancient world ...
Síða 10
... apolitical past which is over and done with , but Akhenaten's amazing life in the western imagination shows how this is anything but the case . He is not static and conservative , but political and 10 AKHENATEN IN THE MIRROR.
... apolitical past which is over and done with , but Akhenaten's amazing life in the western imagination shows how this is anything but the case . He is not static and conservative , but political and 10 AKHENATEN IN THE MIRROR.
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... political and dynamic . Different interest groups compete for the right to present him , and the huge appetite for works about Egypt in all media maintains this . Yet the most successful books on Egypt in terms of sales are often those ...
... political and dynamic . Different interest groups compete for the right to present him , and the huge appetite for works about Egypt in all media maintains this . Yet the most successful books on Egypt in terms of sales are often those ...
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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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