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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... early 1850s , Egypt had a high but still ambivalent position in western ideas about its past and the formation of its culture . These were set out by historians and philosophers like G. W. Hegel ( 1770-1831 ) , who praised ancient ...
... early 1850s , Egypt had a high but still ambivalent position in western ideas about its past and the formation of its culture . These were set out by historians and philosophers like G. W. Hegel ( 1770-1831 ) , who praised ancient ...
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... Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis ( 1913 ) , which went into ten successive editions . Hall believed that Akhenaten was totally solipsistic and probably half - mad , and countered Breasted's ' first individual ' epithet with one ...
... Earliest Times to the Battle of Salamis ( 1913 ) , which went into ten successive editions . Hall believed that Akhenaten was totally solipsistic and probably half - mad , and countered Breasted's ' first individual ' epithet with one ...
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... early psychoanalytic community were fascinated by Akhenaten , who seemed to prove the existence of the Oedipus complex in distant antiquity , and thus the status of psychoanalysis as an objective science . Freud and his followers ...
... early psychoanalytic community were fascinated by Akhenaten , who seemed to prove the existence of the Oedipus complex in distant antiquity , and thus the status of psychoanalysis as an objective science . Freud and his followers ...
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... early psychoanalysts shared little common ground , the fact that they both invoked Akhenaten as a legitimating figure from the past illustrates how quickly he acquired the cultural capital to function in contemporary struggles . Chapter ...
... early psychoanalysts shared little common ground , the fact that they both invoked Akhenaten as a legitimating figure from the past illustrates how quickly he acquired the cultural capital to function in contemporary struggles . Chapter ...
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... early twentieth century , when archaeologists and Egyptologists were media figures famous enough to appear as characters in popular fiction . Part of the reason why Petrie , Wallis Budge and Margaret Murray were so well known in their ...
... early twentieth century , when archaeologists and Egyptologists were media figures famous enough to appear as characters in popular fiction . Part of the reason why Petrie , Wallis Budge and Margaret Murray were so well known in their ...
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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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