Egypt
Esoterica
The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West
By Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001)
Reviewed by Lee Irwin
See the above page for the entire review.
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Egypt
Book Review: The Secret Lore of Egypt
Esoterica
The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West
By Erik Hornung, translated by David Lorton
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001)
Reviewed by Lee Irwin
This is an excellent survey for all esotericists and scholars interested in the role of Egypt in the development of western esoteric thought and practice. It is primarily a book about the history of the idea of "ancient esoteric Egypt" as distinct from the actual culture of pharaonic Egypt. Erik Hornung, who is professor emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and author of such works as Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many and Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, demonstrates the requisite expertise to trace the esoteric idea of Egypt through the labyrinthian history of western European conceptual imagination. While previous works in the area, specifically Iversen's The Myth of Egypt and Its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition (1961) and Assman's Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (1997), have addressed various attitudes toward Egypt around specific issues, Hornung's book is a survey of the history of "Egyptosophy" (his term) as conceptualized in various artistic, literary, and esoteric European traditions.
See the above page for the entire review.
- Book Review: Describing And Interpreting The Past
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sveta Matskevich) Cătălin Pavel, Describing and Interpreting the Past: European and American Approaches to the Written Record of the Excavation. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti While...
- Book Review: Mummy Wheat
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis) R. Drew Griffith, Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008. Drew Griffith's Mummy Wheat...
- Book Review: Mummies And Death In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (review by Allen Kerkeslager) Françoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, Mummies and Death in Egypt. Foreword by Jean Yoyotte. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Cornell University Press, 2006 Françoise Dunand and Roger...
- Review: Jan Assmann, Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-02-01.htmlReviewed by Barry Powell, University of Wisconsin, Madison: "Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt is not an easy book to read, because its topic is highly complex and the data bearing upon it are diverse...
- The Pyramids By Ahmed Fakhry
Ahmed Fakhry The University of Chicago Press 1961 U.S.A. Library of Congress No. 61-8654 This 249 page read from the University of Chicago press contains many images and schematics to help in the explanation of the monuments including at the back of...