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 17m
About this audiobook
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 17 mins
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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
10Chapter II. Religious Architecture.
11Chapter III. Tombs.
12Chapter IV. Painting and Sculpture.
13Chapter V. The Industrial Arts. (pt. 1)
14Chapter V. The Industrial Arts. (pt. 2)
15Literature of Ancient Egypt
16Chapter II The Pyramid Texts
17Chapter III Stories of Magicians Who Lived Under the Ancient Empire
18Chapter IV The Book of the Dead
19Chapter V Books of the Dead of the Græco-Roman Period
20Chapter VI The Egyptian Story of the Creation
21Chapter VII Legends of the Gods
22Chapter VIII Historical Literature
23Chapter IX Autobiographical Literature
24Chapter X Tales of Travel and Adventure
25Chapter XI Fairy Tales
26Chapter XII Egyptian Hymns to the Gods
27Chapter XIII Moral and Philosophical Literature
28Chapter XIV Egyptian Poetical Compositions
29Chapter XV Miscellaneous Literature
30Mythology of Ancient Egypt
31Chapter I: Introductory
32Chapter II: Exploration, History, and Customs
33Chapter III: The Priesthood: Mysteries and Temples
34Chapter IV: The Cult of Osiris
35Chapter V: The Great Gods
36Chapter VI: Egyptian Literature
37Chapter VII: Magic
38Chapter VIII: Foreign and Animal Gods: The Late Period
39Chapter IX: Egyptian Art
40Primary Sources for the History of Ancient Egypt
41The Book of the Dead
42The Rosetta Stone
43The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 1)
44The Book of Egypt: Histories of Herodotus (pt. 2)
45Hymn to the Nile
46The Laments of Isis and Nephthys
47Great Hymn to Aten
48Hymn to Osiris-Sokar
49The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
50The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita
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