Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt - Hardcover
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by Hasan M. El-Shamy (Editor)
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.Author Biography
Hasan El-Shamy is professor of folklore, Near Eastern languages and cultures, and African studies at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN.
Number of Pages: 432
Dimensions: 1.18 x 10.28 x 7.28 IN
Publication Date: August 19, 2002
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