The Literature of Ancient Egypt. Volume III: Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 28311 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 496p., 65 B/W illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251454320 |
The Egypt of the pharaohs is not only monumental pyramids, majestic temples, or inviolate tombs. It has also bequeathed to us, by the very will of its scholars, a prodigious literature. Just as worthy of interest as its stone treasures, the works presented in the eight volumes of this Literature of Ancient Egypt bear witness to the richness of a long tradition and, often, to the originality and depth of a thought chiseled over the centuries. Funeral rituals, hymns and prayers, mythological tales, royal narratives, autobiographies, wisdom, fictional letters, etc., several of these texts have never been translated into French. All are accompanied by an updated bibliography and philological notes useful for their understanding.
With the third volume of this anthology, the reader will discover the literary gems of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period (c. 2050-1550 BCE). The Memoirs of Sinuhe , the Teaching of Ptahhotep , the Dialogue of a man with his ba , the Complaints of the Eloquent Peasant , among others, whose message remains astonishingly relevant, certainly deserve their place among the masterpieces of world literature.
The Egypt of the pharaohs is not only monumental pyramids, majestic temples, or inviolate tombs. It has also bequeathed to us, by the very will of its scholars, a prodigious literature. Just as worthy of interest as its stone treasures, the works presented in the eight volumes of this Literature of Ancient Egypt bear witness to the richness of a long tradition and, often, to the originality and depth of a thought chiseled over the centuries. Funeral rituals, hymns and prayers, mythological tales, royal narratives, autobiographies, wisdom, fictional letters, etc., several of these texts have never been translated into French. All are accompanied by an updated bibliography and philological notes useful for their understanding.
With the third volume of this anthology, the reader will discover the literary gems of Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period (c. 2050-1550 BCE). The Memoirs of Sinuhe , the Teaching of Ptahhotep , the Dialogue of a man with his ba , the Complaints of the Eloquent Peasant , among others, whose message remains astonishingly relevant, certainly deserve their place among the masterpieces of world literature.