The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry / Edition 3
by William Kelley SimpsonThe latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of classical Egyptian history. The book also includes an extensive bibliography. See more details below
Overview
The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of classical Egyptian history. The book also includes an extensive bibliography.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300099201
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Publication date:
- 06/20/2003
- Edition description:
- Revised Edition
- Pages:
- 624
- Sales rank:
- 645,628
- Product dimensions:
- 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d)
Table of Contents
| List of Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Narratives and Tales of Middle Egyptian Literature | 11 |
| King Cheops and the Magicians | 13 | |
| The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant | 25 | |
| The Shipwrecked Sailor | 45 | |
| The Story of Sinuhe | 54 | |
| Pt. II | Late Egyptian Stories | 67 |
| The Quarrel of Apophis and Seknenre | 69 | |
| The Capture of Joppa | 72 | |
| The Tale of the Doomed Prince | 75 | |
| The Tale of the Two Brothers | 80 | |
| The Contendings of Horus and Seth | 91 | |
| The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood | 104 | |
| Astartic and the Insatiable Sea | 108 | |
| A Ghost Story | 112 | |
| The Report of Wenamon | 116 | |
| Pt. III | Instructions, Lamentations, and Dialogues | 125 |
| The Instruction of Hardeclef (First Part) | 127 | |
| The Maxims of Ptahhotep | 129 | |
| The Teaching for the Vizier Kagemni | 149 | |
| The Teaching for King Merikure | 152 | |
| The Teaching of King Amenemhet II for HIs Son Senwosret | 166 | |
| The Loyalist Instruction from the Sehetepibre Stela | 172 | |
| The Instruction of a Man for His Son | 175 | |
| The Man Who Was Weary of Life | 178 | |
| The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage | 188 | |
| The Lamentations of Khakheperre-sonbe | 211 | |
| The Prophecies of Neferty | 214 | |
| The Instruction of Amunnakhte | 221 | |
| The Instruction of Amenemope | 223 | |
| Pt. IV | From the Religious Literature | 245 |
| Selections from the Pyramid Texts | 247 | |
| Selections from the Coffin Texts | 263 | |
| Book of the Dead 125: "The Negative Confession" | 267 | |
| The Hymn to the Aten | 278 | |
| Penitential Hymns | 284 | |
| The Book of the Heavenly Cow | 289 | |
| Pt. V | Songs and Royal Hymns | 299 |
| Cycle of Songs in Honor of Senwosret III | 301 | |
| The Love Songs and The Song of the Harper | 307 | |
| Pt. VI | Royal Stelae | 335 |
| The Semna Stela | 337 | |
| The Neferhotep Stela | 337 | |
| The Kamose Texts | 345 | |
| The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III | 351 | |
| The Israel Stela | 356 | |
| The Bentresh Stela | 361 | |
| The Victory Stela of Piye | 367 | |
| The Famine Stela | 386 | |
| The Satrap Stela | 392 | |
| Pt. VII | Autobiographies | 399 |
| Three Autobiographies of the Old Kingdom | 401 | |
| The Stela of Tjetji | 414 | |
| Amenemhet and Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan | 418 | |
| The Stela of Iykhernofret | 425 | |
| Pt. VIII | Scribal Traditions | 429 |
| The Satire on the Trades: The Instruction of Dua-Khety | 431 | |
| The Scribal Traditions in the Schools | 438 | |
| Pt. IX | Demotic Literature | 443 |
| The Prophecy of the Lamb | 445 | |
| The Tale of Amasis and the Skipper | 450 | |
| The Romance of Sema Khaemuas and the Mummies (Setna I) | 453 | |
| The Adventures of Setna and Si-Osire (Setna II) | 470 | |
| The Childhood of Si-Osire | 490 | |
| The Magician Hibor | 492 | |
| The Fable of the Swallow and the Sea | 494 | |
| The Instruction of 'Onchsheshonqy | 497 | |
| Bibliography | 531 |
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