| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Poems: Akhenaten's hymn to the sun -- Tale of the shipwrecked sailor -- "Why, just now, must you question your heart" -- "I love you through the daytimes" -- "My love is one and only" -- "Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond" -- "Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals" -- "I think I'll go home and lie very still" -- Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter -- Instruction for little Pepi on his way to school -- Longing for Memphis -- "Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis ferry" -- Rebuke addressed to a dissipated scribe -- Menna's lament -- Debate between a man tired of life and his soul -- Resurrection of King Unis -- Prayer to the King to rise up -- Hymn to the King as a primordial God -- Hymn to the King as a flash of lightning -- Hymn to the King as a star fading in the dawn -- Prophecy of Neferty -- Testament of Amenemhat -- Two spells -- Spell for causing the beloved to follow after -- Power from the four winds of heaven -- Greatness of the King -- Prayer of King Ramesses II -- For a portrait of the Queen -- Hymn to Osiris -- Hymn to the Nile -- Hymn to the rising sun -- In praise of Amun -- Lament to Amun -- Tale of Sinuhe -- From the Leiden hymns -- Prayers of Pahery -- From the tomb of King Intef -- Harper's song for Inherkhawy -- From the eloquent peasant -- Peasant's eighth complaint -- From the maxims of Ptahhotep -- Instruction for Merikare -- Wisdom of Amenemopet -- Immortality of writers |
| Summary |
Publisher Fact Sheet This anthology offers an extensive sampling of all the major genres of ancient Egyptian literature, including poetry, stories, hymns, prayers & wisdom texts. An introduction to ancient Egyptian literature & its translation, as well as brief information of the authorship & date of each selection, accompany Foster's translations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Egyptian literature.
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Literatura egípcia.
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Antologia.
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| Genre/Form |
Translations.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Foster, John L. (John Lawrence), 1930-2011
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| LC no. |
00061607 |
| ISBN |
029279813X |
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9780292798137 |
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9780292725263 |
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0292725264 |
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9780292725270 |
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0292725272 |
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