Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (William H. Peck)
- Book Review: A Companion To Ancient History
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sara Saba) Andrew Erskine (ed.), A Companion to Ancient History. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Andrew Erskine is not new to the task of editing a Companion,1...
- 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...
- 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: Daily Life In Ancient Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Kasia Szpakowska, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Recreating Lahun. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade This book recreates the daily life of the...
- Book Review: Religion In The Roman Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Benedetta Bessi, John Cabot University) James B. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire. Blackwell Ancient Religions, 2. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. 237. The Table of Contents indicates that there is an Egyptian...
Egypt
Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Tombs
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (William H. Peck)
Steven Snape, Ancient Egyptian Tombs: the Culture of Life and Death. Blackwell ancient religions. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
This work is a rather ambitious attempt to summarize not only the development of the burial place in ancient Egypt and its architecture, but also the complex religious significance of the tomb, the attendant rituals and ritual objects as well as funerary texts. Admittedly, there is a great deal to be said about each of these aspects of the burial rite in ancient Egypt and the author has essayed a survey that includes a good deal of significant information as well as observation.
The time span of the investigation of over three thousand years begins in the late Predynastic Period and continues through the entire history of pharaonic Egypt. The emphasis is on private rather than royal burials (although these are not completely ignored). Among the topics discussed is an examination of the meaning and function of the tomb as a “machine” or a “vehicle”, in the words of the author, to enable the spirit of the deceased to enter the afterlife.
- Book Review: A Companion To Ancient History
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Sara Saba) Andrew Erskine (ed.), A Companion to Ancient History. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Andrew Erskine is not new to the task of editing a Companion,1...
- 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...
- 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: Daily Life In Ancient Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Kasia Szpakowska, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Recreating Lahun. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade This book recreates the daily life of the...
- Book Review: Religion In The Roman Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Benedetta Bessi, John Cabot University) James B. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire. Blackwell Ancient Religions, 2. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. 237. The Table of Contents indicates that there is an Egyptian...