Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient EgyptThe 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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... become a sign almost entirely through the medium of archaeology . The classical historians do not mention him explicitly , and so he was never a part of western cultural history in the same way as other famous pharaohs like Cheops and ...
... become a sign almost entirely through the medium of archaeology . The classical historians do not mention him explicitly , and so he was never a part of western cultural history in the same way as other famous pharaohs like Cheops and ...
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... become deep - rooted . Akhenaten would never have had the kind of after - life that he has enjoyed unless he was felt to be accessible in a unique way . And so Akhenaten has repeatedly been made to speak , in the first - person singular ...
... become deep - rooted . Akhenaten would never have had the kind of after - life that he has enjoyed unless he was felt to be accessible in a unique way . And so Akhenaten has repeatedly been made to speak , in the first - person singular ...
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... become a favourite way of looking at the present . Such a prolifer- ation of sources made Akhenaten available to a wide audience , and amateur , heterodox versions of Egypt soon began to split themselves off from professional , orthodox ...
... become a favourite way of looking at the present . Such a prolifer- ation of sources made Akhenaten available to a wide audience , and amateur , heterodox versions of Egypt soon began to split themselves off from professional , orthodox ...
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... become clear from the parts of the Akhenaten myth I have chosen to survey here . Any examination of a myth- ologised historical character like Akhenaten inevitably ends up by adding some- thing more to the myth , and this book is no ...
... become clear from the parts of the Akhenaten myth I have chosen to survey here . Any examination of a myth- ologised historical character like Akhenaten inevitably ends up by adding some- thing more to the myth , and this book is no ...
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... mnemonics for a world where orthodox and heterodox , past and present , reality and hyper - reality , are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish . 2 HISTORIES OF AKHENATEN The Tel el Amarna period has 11 AKHENATEN IN THE MIRROR.
... mnemonics for a world where orthodox and heterodox , past and present , reality and hyper - reality , are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish . 2 HISTORIES OF AKHENATEN The Tel el Amarna period has 11 AKHENATEN IN THE MIRROR.
Contents
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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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