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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... London ; Jan Picton for taking on the task of producing drawings and the map ; Sebastian Puncher ; Janet Richards for making available to me her essay on Egyptian sacred landscape in advance of publication ; Gay Robins X Acknowledgements.
... London ; Jan Picton for taking on the task of producing drawings and the map ; Sebastian Puncher ; Janet Richards for making available to me her essay on Egyptian sacred landscape in advance of publication ; Gay Robins X Acknowledgements.
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... produce specific views of him and assist in his mythologisation . It is hard to find common denominators to these myths because they are so Protean , their different guises shifting to suit the needs of particular audiences , genres and ...
... produce specific views of him and assist in his mythologisation . It is hard to find common denominators to these myths because they are so Protean , their different guises shifting to suit the needs of particular audiences , genres and ...
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... produced at the current boundaries of technology. Hall reminds us (very topically) that technology has the power to recreate a past which has nothing to do with history, but everything to do with modern desires about what history ought ...
... produced at the current boundaries of technology. Hall reminds us (very topically) that technology has the power to recreate a past which has nothing to do with history, but everything to do with modern desires about what history ought ...
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... produce specific views of him and assist in his mythologisation . It is hard to find common denominators to these myths because they are so Protean , their different guises shifting to suit the needs of particular audiences , genres and ...
... produce specific views of him and assist in his mythologisation . It is hard to find common denominators to these myths because they are so Protean , their different guises shifting to suit the needs of particular audiences , genres and ...
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... produced at the current bound- aries of technology . Hall reminds us ( very topically ) that technology has the power to re - create a past which has nothing to do with history , but everything to do with modern desires about what ...
... produced at the current bound- aries of technology . Hall reminds us ( very topically ) that technology has the power to re - create a past which has nothing to do with history , but everything to do with modern desires about what ...
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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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