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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... monotheism and the world's first recorded individual , he has fascinated and inspired both scholars of Egyptology and creative talents as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Philip Glass . This provocative biography examines both the real ...
... monotheism and the world's first recorded individual , he has fascinated and inspired both scholars of Egyptology and creative talents as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Philip Glass . This provocative biography examines both the real ...
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... monotheism , and so seemed to be a progressive pharaoh who offered civilisation a way forward in the present . When archaeology revealed more about him in the 1890s and 1900s , this was apparently confirmed . An individual emerged from ...
... monotheism , and so seemed to be a progressive pharaoh who offered civilisation a way forward in the present . When archaeology revealed more about him in the 1890s and 1900s , this was apparently confirmed . An individual emerged from ...
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... Monotheism , centres around the nature of Akhenaten's Geistigkeit , an untranslatable German word combining spirituality , intellectuality and pro- gressiveness . Via Freud , Akhenaten's story inspired Frida Kahlo ( 1907–54 ) , whose ...
... Monotheism , centres around the nature of Akhenaten's Geistigkeit , an untranslatable German word combining spirituality , intellectuality and pro- gressiveness . Via Freud , Akhenaten's story inspired Frida Kahlo ( 1907–54 ) , whose ...
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... monotheism must inherently be a superior belief system to any other . He thinks that this can be deduced from artistic productions : ' Amarna art in the integration of its compositions betrays ... a more joyous acceptance of the natural ...
... monotheism must inherently be a superior belief system to any other . He thinks that this can be deduced from artistic productions : ' Amarna art in the integration of its compositions betrays ... a more joyous acceptance of the natural ...
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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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