1st Edition

Never Had the Like Occurred Egypt's View of its Past

Edited By John Tait Copyright 2007
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

Never Had the Like Occurred examines Ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. As Egyptian culture constantly changed and evolved, this book follows a chronological arrangement, from early Egypt to the attitudes of the Coptic population in the Byzantine Period. Within this framework, it asks what access the Egyptians had to information about the past, whether deliberately or... Read more
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION - '... SINCE THE TIME OF THE GODS', John Tait; Chapter 2 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN VIEW OF WORLD HISTORY, E. P. Uphill; Chapter 3 ARCHAISM AND MODERNISM IN THE RELIEFS OF HESY-RA, Whitney Davis; Chapter 4 LOOKING BACK INTO THE FUTURE: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM AS A BRIDGE TO THE PAST, Dietrich Wildung; Chapter 5 ARCHAISM AND INNOVATION IN ART FROM THE NEW KINGDOM TO THE TWENTY-SIXTH DYNASTY, Robert Morkot; Chapter 6 LITERATURE AS A CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM, Ludwig D. Morenz; Chapter 7 REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PAST IN NEW KINGDOM LITERATURE, Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert; Chapter 8 VIEWS OF THE PAST IN EGYPT DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC, Antonio Loprieno; Chapter 9 EGYPT'S VIEWS OF 'OTHERS', David O'Connor; Chapter 10 FOREIGNERS AT MEMPHIS? PETRIE'S RACIAL TYPES, Sally-Ann Ashton; Chapter 11 ALL IN THE FAMILY? HEIRLOOMS IN ANCIENT EGYPT, David Jeffreys; Chapter 12 THE PTOLEMAIC ROYAL IMAGE AND THE EGYPTIAN TRADITION, Sally-Ann Ashton;

Biography

John Tait