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Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry Among Other Histories
Author: R. B. Parkinson
In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages. —
  • Presents an innovative and theoretically-informed account of how the most famous ancient Egyptian — poems have been read over 4,000 years —
  • From a leading expert in the interpretation of ancien...  more »
  • Explores the original experience of ordinary Egyptians enjoying the poems as well as their interpretation

    during the Middle Kingdom and up to modern times

  • Draws on recent discoveries in the British Museum archives to reconstruct the contexts of the poems
ISBN-13: 9781405125482
ISBN-10: 1405125489
Publication Date: 3/30/2009
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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