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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Síða 6
... written about . It was as an idealist that Akhenaten attracted Sigmund Freud . His last and most puzzling work , Moses and Monotheism , centres around the nature of Akhenaten's Geistigkeit , an untranslatable German word combining ...
... written about . It was as an idealist that Akhenaten attracted Sigmund Freud . His last and most puzzling work , Moses and Monotheism , centres around the nature of Akhenaten's Geistigkeit , an untranslatable German word combining ...
Síða 9
... writing cultural history : they were involved with much more immediate struggles . This was brought home when I moved on to the writings of alternative religionists . I was struck by the racist assumptions that seemed to underlie some ...
... writing cultural history : they were involved with much more immediate struggles . This was brought home when I moved on to the writings of alternative religionists . I was struck by the racist assumptions that seemed to underlie some ...
Síða 12
... written about it than any other period in Egyptian history , and Akhenaten is a strong rival to Cleopatra for the historical novelist . The appeal of Cleopatra is the romantic combination of love and death ; Akhen- aten appeals by a ...
... written about it than any other period in Egyptian history , and Akhenaten is a strong rival to Cleopatra for the historical novelist . The appeal of Cleopatra is the romantic combination of love and death ; Akhen- aten appeals by a ...
Síða 13
... written with any neutrality . More than any other period of Egyptian history , Akhenaten's reign evokes emotive narratives and personalised responses , even from conserva- tive academics who have had long scholarly connections with it ...
... written with any neutrality . More than any other period of Egyptian history , Akhenaten's reign evokes emotive narratives and personalised responses , even from conserva- tive academics who have had long scholarly connections with it ...
Síða 14
... written documentation , but does not offer a narrative history . Readers have to put that together from the documents . A short synthesis pointing out a few facts alongside many problems might therefore be a useful preliminary to my ...
... written documentation , but does not offer a narrative history . Readers have to put that together from the documents . A short synthesis pointing out a few facts alongside many problems might therefore be a useful preliminary to my ...
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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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