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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 »t Egyptian literature
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