Demotic Literary Texts from the Tebtunis Temple Library and Elsewhere - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demotic Literary Texts from the Tebtunis Temple Library and Elsewhere write by Kim Ryholt. This book was released on 2011. Demotic Literary Texts from the Tebtunis Temple Library and Elsewhere available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library
Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library write by Kim Ryholt. This book was released on 2012. Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st/2nd century AD). Eight of the texts are historical narratives which focus on the first millennium BC. Four concern prince Inaros, who rebelled against the Assyrian domination of Egypt in the 7th century, and his clan. One is about Inaros himself, while the other three take place after his death. Two other narratives mention Necho I and II of the Saite Period. The story about Necho II is particularly noteworthy, since it refers to the king as Nechepsos and, for the first time, provides us with the identity behind this name. Nechepsos is well supported as a sage king in Greek literary tradition, above all, in relation to astrology. Of the two final historical narratives, one belongs to the cycle of stories about the Heliopolitan priesthood and the other concerns the Persian occupation of Egypt in the 5th or 4th century. The volume further includes a prophecy
Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales
Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales write by Jacqueline E. Jay. This book was released on 2016-06-10. Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.
Hieratic Texts from the Collection
Hieratic Texts from the Collection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hieratic Texts from the Collection write by K. S. B. Ryholt. This book was released on 2006. Hieratic Texts from the Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mainly dedicated to hieratic manuscripts from the Tebtunis temple library and contains contributions by Alexandra von Lieven, J F Quack, and Kim Ryholt. The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved, and the immense material -- estimated at several hundred manuscripts -- makes it by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. The present volume is introduced by a survey of the hieratic and hieroglyphic manuscripts from the temple library. The main genres are discussed and conclusions are drawn concerning the sort of compositions transmitted in hieratic as well as the cultural values which lie behind the choices. The survey is followed by full editions of a series of religious texts: an Osiris liturgy, the Ritual of Bringing Sokar out of the Shetit (previously known only from monumental hieroglyphic versions from temples and manuscripts for funerary use), the Votive Cubit (otherwise known essentially from fragments of the original stone cubits), the Nine-Headed Bes (a parallel to the famous illustrated Brooklyn papyrus but with a fuller description of how the practitioner should proceed), and the Ritual of Opening the Mouth (one version written for Sobek, lord of Tebtunis, the others for Sokar-Osiris). The volume further includes a slip of papyrus with four book-titles, a papyrus with a coloured drawing of an offering scene, and a decorated band for tying up a papyrus roll.
Poems without Poets
Poems without Poets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poems without Poets write by Boris Kayachev. This book was released on 2021-03-31. Poems without Poets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around big names, with Homer and Virgil at the center, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to a known author. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as, for instance, the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the learned interpolation that is the Helen episode in Aeneid 2, but they all have in common that they have been maltreated in various ways, consciously or through neglect, by generations of readers and scholars, ancient as well as modern. These accumulated layers of obliteration, which can manifest, for instance, in textual distortions or aesthetic condemnation, make it all but impossible to access anonymous poems in their pristine shape and context. The essays collected in this volume attempt, each in its own way, to disentangle the bundles of historically accreted uncertainties and misconceptions that affect individual anonymous texts, including pseudepigrapha ascribed to Homer, Manetho, Virgil, and Tibullus, literary and inscribed epigrams, and unattributed fragments. Poems without Poets will be of interest to students and scholars working on any anonymous ancient texts, but also to readers seeking an introduction to classical poetry beyond the limits of the established canon.
