Ancient Egyptian Literature An Anthology

Name: Ancient Egyptian Literature An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780292725270

ISBN-10: 0292725272

ISBN-13: 9780292725270

Edition: 2001

Authors: John L. Foster

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"Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge; approach the unlettered as well as the wise. The summit of artistry cannot be reached, nor does craftsman ever attain pure mastery. More hidden than gems is chiseled expression yet found among slave girls grinding the grain." from the Maxims of Ptahhotep Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires in ancient Greece and Israel. Yet, because of its very antiquity and the centuries during which the language was forgotten, ancient Egyptian literature is a newly discovered country for modern readers. This…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 6/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Hieroglyphic Passages


Preface


Acknowledgments


The Poems Akhenaten'


Hymn to the Sun


The 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' Daughter


The 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' Lament


Thc Debate between a Man Tired of Life and His Soul


The 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


Prayer of the King as a Star Fading in the Dawn


The Prophecy of Neferty


The Testament of Amenemhat


Two Spells


Spell for Causing the Beloved to Follow After


Power from the Four Winds of Heaven


The 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


The Tale of Sinuhe


From


The Leiden Hymns


The Prayers of Pahery


From the Tomb of King Intef


The Harper' Song for Inherkhawy


From


The Eloquent Peasant


The Peasant' Eighth Complaint


From


The Maxims of Ptahhotep


The Instructionfor Merikarecirc


The Wisdom of Amenemopet


The Immortality of Writers (Epilogue)


Chronology


Glossary


Sources of the Texts


Bibliography