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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... present : how Akhenaten is simultaneously a legacy of the past and a fact of the present . I am not really interested in Akhenaten himself , but in why other people are interested in him and find his story relevant and inspirational ...
... present : how Akhenaten is simultaneously a legacy of the past and a fact of the present . I am not really interested in Akhenaten himself , but in why other people are interested in him and find his story relevant and inspirational ...
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... present from the novelist Henry Rider Haggard – a ring found at Amarna and inscribed with Akhenaten's name. Kipling's thank-you note to Haggard says: Just a line on my return from town to thank you a hundred times for Akhenaton's Seal ...
... present from the novelist Henry Rider Haggard – a ring found at Amarna and inscribed with Akhenaten's name. Kipling's thank-you note to Haggard says: Just a line on my return from town to thank you a hundred times for Akhenaton's Seal ...
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... present . Such multiple and contradictory redrawings of characters from ancient history like Sappho , Alexander the Great , Cleopatra and Julius Caesar are always more concerned with the importance of the issues discussed through them ...
... present . Such multiple and contradictory redrawings of characters from ancient history like Sappho , Alexander the Great , Cleopatra and Julius Caesar are always more concerned with the importance of the issues discussed through them ...
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... present : how Akhenaten is simultaneously a legacy of the past and a fact of the present . I am not really interested in Akhenaten himself , but in why other people are interested in him and find his story relevant and inspirational ...
... present : how Akhenaten is simultaneously a legacy of the past and a fact of the present . I am not really interested in Akhenaten himself , but in why other people are interested in him and find his story relevant and inspirational ...
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... presents a carefully constructed image of himself through an ideolo- gised set of words and pictures that make the ... present . When archaeology revealed more about him in the 1890s and 1900s , this was apparently confirmed . An ...
... presents a carefully constructed image of himself through an ideolo- gised set of words and pictures that make the ... present . When archaeology revealed more about him in the 1890s and 1900s , this was apparently confirmed . An ...
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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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