The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. Often called the originator of monotheism and the worlds first recorded individual, he has fascinated and inspired both scholars of Egyptology and creative talents as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Philip Glass. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaohs extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism. It makes the point that our view of Akhenaten has never been purely based on historical or archaeological knowledge, but is a cultural hallucination, influenced by western desires about ancient Egypt and modern struggles for legitimation and authority. Combining up-to-date historical synthesis with extensive new archival research, Akhentaen: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt is the first book to assess critically why the archaeology of ancient Egypt continues to fascinate. Theoretically astute yet engagingly written, and illustrated with many striking images never previously published, it will appeal to anyone with an interest in Akhenaten or in the archaeology of ancient Egypt.
0 有用 翡冷翠的晚祷⚜ 2021-06-07 19:53:03
上个月卢克索发掘出了“失落的黄金城”,重燃了我对埃赫那吞的兴趣,作为人类历史记载上可能是第一个宗教改革者,他的身世和统治在历史尘埃中早已成谜。正像本书开头所说,作者并不打算解开这些谜团(一二章简单做了历史铺垫),而将笔墨重点放在后人如何看待埃赫那吞这个象征物(三考古学,四心理学,五宗教学,六文学,七性别学),其中最精彩的部分莫过于弗洛伊德关于其俄狄浦斯情结和摩西引路人的论点。结尾处并没有给埃赫那吞... 上个月卢克索发掘出了“失落的黄金城”,重燃了我对埃赫那吞的兴趣,作为人类历史记载上可能是第一个宗教改革者,他的身世和统治在历史尘埃中早已成谜。正像本书开头所说,作者并不打算解开这些谜团(一二章简单做了历史铺垫),而将笔墨重点放在后人如何看待埃赫那吞这个象征物(三考古学,四心理学,五宗教学,六文学,七性别学),其中最精彩的部分莫过于弗洛伊德关于其俄狄浦斯情结和摩西引路人的论点。结尾处并没有给埃赫那吞下结论,而且给出了十分中肯的理由,He has become a simulacrum, an endlessly repeated copy with no original. His immortality lies precisely in what is not there. (展开)
0 有用 翡冷翠的晚祷⚜ 2021-06-07 19:53:03
上个月卢克索发掘出了“失落的黄金城”,重燃了我对埃赫那吞的兴趣,作为人类历史记载上可能是第一个宗教改革者,他的身世和统治在历史尘埃中早已成谜。正像本书开头所说,作者并不打算解开这些谜团(一二章简单做了历史铺垫),而将笔墨重点放在后人如何看待埃赫那吞这个象征物(三考古学,四心理学,五宗教学,六文学,七性别学),其中最精彩的部分莫过于弗洛伊德关于其俄狄浦斯情结和摩西引路人的论点。结尾处并没有给埃赫那吞... 上个月卢克索发掘出了“失落的黄金城”,重燃了我对埃赫那吞的兴趣,作为人类历史记载上可能是第一个宗教改革者,他的身世和统治在历史尘埃中早已成谜。正像本书开头所说,作者并不打算解开这些谜团(一二章简单做了历史铺垫),而将笔墨重点放在后人如何看待埃赫那吞这个象征物(三考古学,四心理学,五宗教学,六文学,七性别学),其中最精彩的部分莫过于弗洛伊德关于其俄狄浦斯情结和摩西引路人的论点。结尾处并没有给埃赫那吞下结论,而且给出了十分中肯的理由,He has become a simulacrum, an endlessly repeated copy with no original. His immortality lies precisely in what is not there. (展开)