Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Reviw (review by L. R. Siddall)
- Book Review: A Companion To Ancient Egypt (2 Vols.)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig) Alan B. Lloyd (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Egypt (2 vols.). Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. One of the recent additions to the Blackwell...
- Book Review: Poems In Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente) Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008....
- Book Review: The Healing Power Of Ancient Literature
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Lun Yee Too) Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker (ed.), The Healing Power of Ancient Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. The Healing Power of Ancient Literature edited by Stephen Bertman and Lois...
- There Was Once A Man
Al Ahram Weekly (Jenny Jobbins) It has recently been making something of a comeback, but generally speaking the performance art of storytelling has been on a slow decline ever since the invention of the printing press and the consequent rise in literacy...
- Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Literature By John L. Foster
There's a short review of the above book on the About.com website by K. Kris Hirst, from which the following is a brief extract (Book details: John L. Foster (translator). 2001. Ancient Egyptian Literature. University of Texas Press, Austin. 229 pp;...
Egypt
Book Review: Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Bryn Mawr Classical Reviw (review by L. R. Siddall)
R. B. Parkinson, Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among other Histories. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Preview
"This book has been written for fun, and it is in a sense a love letter to these three poems and the places that produced them," so R. B. Parkinson describes Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry. This "love letter" investigates how three of Egypt's best known ancient poems, the Tale of Sinuhe, the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant and the Dialogue of a Man and his Soul, were written, read, performed and received from the Middle Kingdom period to the modern age. The book is organized in three parts and each focuses on the poems' surviving manuscripts, the process of composition, reception and meaning in the respective historical periods with an emphasis on the poems' social, archaeological and historical contexts. With 69 excellent black and white photographs and illustrations, chronological tables and translations of the 12th Dynasty papyri, this book is a significant contribution to the study of ancient Egyptian literature.
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry is Parkinson's third monograph on ancient Egyptian literature. His previous studies have established him as one of the leading scholars in the field. For Parkinson, this book completes the triad on Egyptian literature, but it is the most divergent.
- Book Review: A Companion To Ancient Egypt (2 Vols.)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig) Alan B. Lloyd (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Egypt (2 vols.). Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. One of the recent additions to the Blackwell...
- Book Review: Poems In Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente) Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008....
- Book Review: The Healing Power Of Ancient Literature
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Lun Yee Too) Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker (ed.), The Healing Power of Ancient Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. The Healing Power of Ancient Literature edited by Stephen Bertman and Lois...
- There Was Once A Man
Al Ahram Weekly (Jenny Jobbins) It has recently been making something of a comeback, but generally speaking the performance art of storytelling has been on a slow decline ever since the invention of the printing press and the consequent rise in literacy...
- Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Literature By John L. Foster
There's a short review of the above book on the About.com website by K. Kris Hirst, from which the following is a brief extract (Book details: John L. Foster (translator). 2001. Ancient Egyptian Literature. University of Texas Press, Austin. 229 pp;...