Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt PDF
Edited by El-Shamy Hasan M. El-Shamy
Part of the Classic Folk and Fairy Tales series
Description
Makes available a difficult-to-find folkloric scholarship classic and illuminates it with contemporary commentary from a preeminent authority on Egyptian folktales.
Gaston Maspero is a towering figure in Egyptology. Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt offers a wealth of primary data and authoritative commentaries on ancient Egyptian culture, language, history, society, and ethnic groups as depicted in Egyptian and Greek-Egyptian narratives. The work provides the contextual data necessary for understanding the tale-texts and reflects Maspero's deep knowledge of many fields, from the classics to life in modern Egypt.
This new edition includes a contemporary foreword, which introduces Maspero and describes his scholarship. It also provides, for the first time, extensive identification of the ancient stories in terms of international tale-types and motifs. The new information places the anthology in a broader academic context and is a valuable resource for students of Egyptology, folklore, literature, history, and social and cultural anthropology.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:19/08/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9781576076408
Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:19/08/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9781576076408
