Ancient Egypt: History, Mythology & Literature
Pharaohs, Sacred Legends, Hieroglyphic Texts, and the Civilization of the NileBy George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman, Gaston Maspero, Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns, E. A. Wallis Budge, Lewis Spence
Length47h 15m
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Ancient Egypt: History, Mythology & Literature assembles a capacious portrait of one of antiquity's most enduring civilizations, joining historical narrative, religious interpretation, mythographic retelling, and literary study. Its selections move between dynastic politics, monumental culture, funerary belief, divine genealogies, and the imaginative afterlives of Egyptian texts. The volume's varied approaches illuminate both the administrative and archaeological realities of Egypt and the symbolic world of gods, kingship, death, and renewal, with particular force in its treatments of the Book of the Dead and the great mythic cycles. The contributors represent influential nineteenth- and early twentieth-century traditions of Egyptology, classical scholarship, popular historical writing, and comparative mythology. Their work reflects the era in which philology, excavation, translation, and imperial-era collecting expanded European access to Egyptian material culture and textual sources. Though their methods and assumptions belong to distinct scholarly moments, their combined voices reveal how Egypt was interpreted across disciplines: as a historical polity, a religious imagination, and a foundational literary culture. This volume is recommended to readers seeking a broad, intellectually stimulating entry into ancient Egypt. It offers the rare advantage of encountering multiple scholarly lenses in one book, inviting comparison between historical reconstruction, mythological analysis, and translated literary tradition. Students and general readers alike will find it a valuable occasion to assess both Egypt's cultural legacy and the changing practices through which that legacy has been understood.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length47 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 26, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Glory of Greece & Rome: A 24-Volume Anthology
2Ancient Egypt: History, Mythology & Literature
3Historical Books
4History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 1)
5History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 2)
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6History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 3)
7History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 4)
8History of Ancient Egypt (pt. 5)
9Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
102. THE TEMPLE. (pt. 1)
112. THE TEMPLE. (pt. 2)
122. THE TEMPLE. (pt. 3)
13Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 1)
14Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 2)
15Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 3)
16Literature of Ancient Egypt (pt. 4)
17Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 1)
18Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 2)
19Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 3)
20Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 4)
21Mythology of Ancient Egypt (pt. 5)
22Primary Sources for the History of Ancient Egypt
23The Book of the Dead
24The Rosetta Stone
25The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 1)
26The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 2)
27Hymn to the Nile
28The Laments of Isis and Nephthys
29Great Hymn to Aten
30Hymn to Osiris-Sokar
31The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
32The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita
33An Account of the Battle of Megiddo
34Charm for the Protection of a Child
35Stories & Poems of Ancient Egypt
36Tale of the Doomed Prince
37The Magic Book
38The Dialogue of a Misanthrope with His Own Soul
39Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
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