| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Outline chronology; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; 1. Akhenaten in the mirror; 2. Histories of Akhenaten; The reign of Akhenaten; Akhenaten's family; A break with the past?; 'Exquisite deformities': art and the body; Pharaoh with no name; 3. The archaeologies of Amarna; From grotto to garden suburb; Archaeology and tourism at Amarna 1891-1914; The 1920s and 1930s: Amarna before and after Tutankhamun; Amarnamania: artefacts and architecture; Amarna after Pendlebury |
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4. Protestants, psychoanalysts and FascistsJames Henry Breasted and Arthur Weigall; Moses and monotheism in context; Fascist Akhenatens; 5. Race and religion; Black pharaohs; Akhenaten and alternative religions; Spiritualist Akhenatens; From Amarna to Atlantis; Aton/aition; 6. Literary Akhenatens; Fictions 1890-1923: spectral Akhenatens; Fictions post-Tutankhamun; Post-war Akhenatens; 7. Sexualities; Camp Akhenatens: Derek Jarman and Philip Glass; 8. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134690343 |
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1134690347 |
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