The Life and Times of Akhnaton
Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
Author : Dominic Montserrat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134690347
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.
Author : Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : History
ISBN :
"The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of Egypt" by English egyptologist Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall is a seminal piece of historic non-fiction. Providing one of the most thoroughly researched biographies of the Pharoah Akhnaton. Basing his work on discoveries that, at the time of writing the book, were being unearthed daily, Weigall is able to create a picture of the rise and fall of this Pharaoh. Though it might be impossible to go back in time, Arthur Weigall has managed to create a picture that is so immersive, that readers have felt as if they were actually in Ancient Egypt since it was first published in 1910.
Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
A study of the origin of the Roman Empire by Arthur Weigall.
Author : Immanuel Velikovsky
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781906833589
Is it conceivable that the Oedipus saga was not a creation of human fancy but is based on historical happenings? This question is posed by Immanuel Velikovsky in the present book. The most popular pharaonic family of all - Akhnaton with his wife Nefertiti and his son Tutankhamen - are exposed as the real protagonists of the Oedipus saga.
Author : Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Egypt
ISBN :
Author : Erik Hornung
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801487255
Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. E. Called the "religious revolutionary," he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with Egypt's traditional polytheism and focused its worship on a single deity, the sun god Aten. Erik Hornung, one of the world's preeminent Egyptologists, here offers a concise and accessible account of Akhenaten and his religion of light.Hornung begins with a discussion of the nineteenth-century scholars who laid the foundation for our knowledge of Akhenaten's period and extends to the most recent archaeological finds. He emphasizes that Akhenaten's monotheistic theology represented the first attempt in history to explain the entire natural and human world on the basis of a single principle. "Akhenaten made light the absolute reference point," Hornung writes, "and it is astonishing how clearly and consistently he pursued this concept." Hornung also addresses such topics as the origins of the new religion; pro-found changes in beliefs regarding the afterlife; and the new Egyptian capital at Akhetaten which was devoted to the service of Aten, his prophet Akhenaten, and the latter's family.
Author : Mika Waltari
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1774642972
First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to get close to the Pharoah...
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
ISBN : 057370628X
An enlightened pharaoh falls foul of his conservative court when he attempts to unite the polytheist Egyptians under one god – a course of action that forces factions of both the army and priesthood to turn against him. Undeterred, Akhnaton’s vision of a kingdom where people dwell in peace, truth, love and beauty will ultimately destroy him and all those he holds dear. Regarded as one of her most extraordinary plays, this epic historical drama is unlike anything you have read of Christie’s before.
Author : Ronald T. Ridley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1617979449
A groundbreaking historiography of the reign of Akhenaten More ink has probably been spilled on Akhenaten and his times (‘the Amarna Period’) than any other figure from ancient Egypt, with a vast range of interpretations and theories that can leave the uninitiated utterly bewildered. Against this background, Akhenaten: A Historian’s View examines what scholars have said over the years regarding key aspects of the period, to produce a ‘history of histories,’ exploring exactly how various chains of arguments were arrived at—and how houses of cards thus erected have subsequently come tumbling down. In particular, it teases out ideas based on solid documentation from those based on theory and fancy, and tracks ways in which new evidence became available, how it was interpreted, and how it fed—or didn't—into the big picture. This book thus fills a major gap in the literature of the Amarna Period and also contributes to the wider, and much neglected, field of the historiography of ancient Egypt.