Ancient Egyptian Literature (Probleme Der Agyptologie, Bd 10) - Hardcover

Loprieno, Antonio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004099255 ISBN 13: 9789004099258

Publisher: Brill, 1996

Synopsis

Twenty scholars have contributed to this book which deals with the development and characteristics of the literature of ancient Egypt over a period of over more than two millenia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BC) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300BC-200AD). The book is divided into thirty chapters concerned with the definition of literary discourse, the history and genre of the texts, their linguistic and stylistic features and the image of Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions - Greek, Coptic and Arabic. Thoroughly interdisciplinary.

About this title

About the Author:

Antonio Loprieno, Ph.D. (1977), University of Turin, Italy, and Dr. phil.habil. (1984), University of Göttingen, Germany, is Professor of Egyptology and Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published extensively on Egyptian language and literature, including Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Language Notes:

Text: English, German, French

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 9004099255
• ISBN 13: 9789004099258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 792