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Anonymous Mon Mar 22 19:41:38 2021 No.17846821 [Reply] [Original]

What's some literature from/about Ancient Egypt?

Anonymous Mon Mar 22 19:45:49 2021 No.17846865

>>17846821
The bulk of my familiarity with Ancient Egyptian literature is with their mythology. I'd suggest reading an anthology of that. In addition, there's a story which I don't remember the name of, but it goes like this:
>Priest tries to find wood needed to build a boat, bumbles from place to place in the Ancient Levant, gets pushed around
It's supposed to be representative of the decline of Egyptian power in the Late Bronze Age. I don't remember the name of it, but I read it in college.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 20:57:04 2021 No.17847268 Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie. She lived in Egypt where her husband was an Egyptologist. She also wrote a play about Akhenaton.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:01:00 2021 No.17847281 File: 20 KB, 300x455, md22910364734.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17846821 My favorite.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:01:35 2021 No.17847284 >>17846821 Aeschylus' the Suppliant Maidens

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:07:07 2021 No.17847316 >>17846821 Check out the Assmann

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:07:42 2021 No.17847325 >>17846821 Burroughs has a novel you might enjoy

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:41:13 2021 No.17847518 >>17846821 Is that a crocodile-dog? Also bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:46:29 2021 No.17847557 The Egyptian by Mika Waltari

Anonymous Mon Mar 22 21:47:36 2021 No.17847569

Didn't Schwaller de Lubicz's wife write some fucking weird fanfics based on his work? Her-Bak the Egyptian or something.

But there's a classic Egyptian historical fiction I learned about on /lit/ back in the day, and that's not it. Anyone help me out? It was like The Long Ships but for Egypt.

>>17847316
Hey, the Assmann's in town!

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 22:05:08 2021 No.17847689 File: 2.19 MB, 1453x2244, 34682.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17846821 Pic related if you are interested in ancient wisdom literature. It tends to be a mixed bag in terms of content but great insight into Egyptian religion and life

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 22:06:50 2021 No.17847706 Ancient Evenings by Mailer

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 22:07:14 2021 No.17847710 >>17847325 The Western Lands. it is based but Burroughs is officially ON NOTICE for being a pedo and a murderer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 22:41:34 2021 No.17847930 >>17847518 It's Ammit, a crocodile-lion-hippo, a chimera of the deadliest beasts according to ancient egyptians.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 23:49:45 2021 No.17848293 File: 2.18 MB, 4032x3024, F958AD18-6F3B-47A9-AAF7-4604C0CD542A.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17847689

Anonymous Mon Mar 22 23:52:45 2021 No.17848313
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I recommend starting with one of the text on mythology in this list and not one of the history books, read it later if you care, because you will lose interest quickly, I just read Writings From Ancient Egypt and it was interesting and comfy.

The /lit/ wiki is a good source for reading list in general, mods should sticky it
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/7/76/Begin_bronze_age_v2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180427100353

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 23:57:03 2021 No.17848335 File: 11 KB, 470x454, 1581617061695.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why do we start with the Greeks and not the Egyptians if the Egyptians influenced the Greeks?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 22 23:58:58 2021 No.17848344 >>17848335 They are never directly cited in the Greeks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 00:00:07 2021 No.17848352 >>17848335 Read a few Egyptian myths and you will know why. Horus vs. Sett basically boils down to Horus cumming in Sett's sandwich (yes, really)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 00:00:51 2021 No.17848359 >>17848344 Herodotus?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 00:04:51 2021 No.17848387 >>17848352 Maybe we could make a chart of secondary texts that detail the influence

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 00:20:56 2021 No.17848503 >>17848335 Because only until relatively recently have Egyptian text been translated, same goes for Mesopotamia.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 02:30:24 2021 No.17849083 >>17848293 Good times in old Egypt

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 02:32:31 2021 No.17849090 >>17848293 >>17849083 Based Egyptian pantheon punishing coombrains vs cringe Mesopotamian Ishtar simps

Anonymous Tue Mar 23 02:44:04 2021 No.17849119

>>17846821
Miriam Lichteim has some fantastic translations of the unfortunatedly overlooked egyptian literature. She has two comprehensive volumen and its available on libgen. I recommend you start with the Middle Kingdom, arguably egyptian letters golden age.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 02:54:01 2021 No.17849160 >>17847281 Isn't that outdated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 04:00:59 2021 No.17849331 File: 132 KB, 317x475, 1587949128564.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17846821 Uzdavinys did alot of work on Egypt, and how its ideas connect with other cultures. Pic related is good

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 04:52:19 2021 No.17849499 I'd like to write something about Egypt one day but I don't know if I'd ever have the time to research it well enough and write it all. >>17847557 Seen this rec'd before but never tried it, but I assume it's good.

Anonymous Tue Mar 23 05:06:25 2021 No.17849534
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>>17846821
Egyptian Writings by Wilkinson and Story of Sinuhe by Parkison for translations of texts
The Egyptian World by Wilkinson for general overviews
The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt by Smith for, well, in-depth analyses of the art and architecture.

Anonymous Tue Mar 23 05:08:45 2021 No.17849544
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>>17849090
>Egyptians
>not coomers
Sister without rival,
most beautiful of all,
she looks like the star-goddess, rising
at the start of the good New Year.
Perfect and bright, shining skin,
seductive in her eyes when she glances,
sweet in her lips when she speaks,
and never a word too many.
Slender neck, shining body,
her hair is true lapis,
her arm gathers gold,
her fingers are like lotus flowers,
ample behind, tight waist,
her thighs extend her beauty,
shapely in stride when she steps on the earth.
She has stolen my heart with her embrace,
She has made the neck of every man
turn round at the sight of her.
Whoever embraces her is happy,
he is like the head of lovers,
and she is seen going outside
like That Goddess, the One Goddess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntnBuQAvFjA

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 06:57:59 2021 No.17849903 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 07:50:55 2021 No.17850127 >>17849544 What are those rings around their thighs?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 08:50:57 2021 No.17850424 >>17846821 Is this "(206) 441-4618"?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 08:56:29 2021 No.17850438 File: 415 KB, 433x462, Ammit_manga_portal.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17850424

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 10:13:54 2021 No.17850748 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 10:25:34 2021 No.17850790 >>17848344 Plato? Pythagoras/pythagoreans? Solon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 10:32:15 2021 No.17850826 >>17849160 Yes, but unfortunately there is no single volume as comprehensive that contains the latest scholarship.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 11:18:21 2021 No.17851115 >>17846821 Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 12:04:38 2021 No.17851432 How about an autistic alt-history fanfiction about Atenism? https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-realm-of-millions-of-years-the-world-of-an-atenist-egypt.225332/

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 13:35:32 2021 No.17852002 >>17849544 Nothing coomer tier about writing about beautiful woman in a non crass manner

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 14:16:56 2021 No.17852285 >>17852002 >ample behind, tight waist, >her thighs extend her beauty,

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 14:19:15 2021 No.17852297 File: 136 KB, 750x304, 27BEA563-3A76-4F80-A3EA-7285A0753D7F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17846821 Good Penguin book. Oxford’s History of Ancient Egypt is good also. yes

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 15:42:44 2021 No.17852819 >>17846821 The tale of Sinuhe. Most /lit/ doesn't know it because plebs, but this was the gilgamesh before gilgamesh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 16:17:15 2021 No.17853042 Who are the Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves of Egyptian mythology?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 17:27:31 2021 No.17853614 >>17852297 I read that one yesterday, very comfy and interesting collection does not get boring, I particularly liked the longer battle narratives, the more philosophical parts of lamentations, and the songs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 17:28:33 2021 No.17853626 >>17852819 I knoew Sinuhe from the charts but I personally think the Mesopotamians were better writers, not to say that there are not many smaller Egyptian pieces which are on the same level.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 17:31:54 2021 No.17853651 >>17852297 Perhaps substitute something for Oxford? Some of it is fine but I got bored quickly (it is more of a collection of essays by different authors)

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 23 19:28:52 2021 No.17854440 >>17852285 not really coomer

>>	GODCOCK Tue Mar 23 20:50:01 2021 No.17854942 >>17846821 set in Ancient Egypt, Khai of Khem by Brian Lumley. Good read, very descriptive at times, the geografical scenery is nice too. Easily imaginable.

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