Margaret A. Murray
The Splendour That Was Egypt
London 1979
Stron XXII+256, format: 15x23 cm
200 czarno-białych ilustracji
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Though it is impossible to compress the long history of Egyptian civilization within the limits of one volume, Dr Murray has succeeded in giving a rapid survey of the main elements which went to the making of the splendour that was Egypt. The book is written for the general reader, and is divided into six sections, Prehistory, History, Social Conditions, Religion, Arts and Sciences, and Language and Literature, and therefore covers briefly the whole subject. 'It is to her dry climate and dry soil that Egypt owes the preservation of the material that makes it possible to trace the course of her development from the barbarism of the remote past to the full flower of civilization and then to its decay. No other country has given so rich a harvest to the archaeologist, nor can any other country show such splendour of material, such beauty of technical skill, and so great a feeling for art over so long a period.... The splendour of Egypt was not a mere mushroom growth, lasting for a few hundred years. Where Greece and Rome can count their supremacy by the century, Egypt counts hers by the millennium, and the remains of that splendour can even now eclipse the remains of any other ancient country in the world'. Within the narrow bounds of that little country, enclosed as it was to east and west by waterless deserts, there evolved a civilization which was the foundation of Greece, of Rome, and finally of our own.
Over 200 illustrations in line, half-tone and colour
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations page ix
Preface xiii
Introduction xv
I. Prehistory 1
The five periods: Tasian, Badarian, Amratean, Gerzean, Semainian
II. History 11
Proto-Dynastic: Old Kingdom: First Intermediate Period: Middle Kingdom: Second Intermediate Period: New Kingdom: Late Period: Persian Period: Ptolemaic Period
III. Social Conditions 57
Organisation: Law: Agriculture: Trade, Position of Women: Ptolemaic Period: Education: Houses and Towns: Furniture: Gardens and Flowers: Servants: Horses and Chariots: Food: Lighting: Dress: Pastimes
IV. Religion 92
Local Gods: Osiris and the Pharaoh: The Pharaoh: Primitive Goddesses: The Sun-God: Ritual: Burial Customs: Religious Endowments: Ethics: Magic: Curses
V. Art and Science 142
Music: Architecture: Pyramids: Sculpture and Painting: Statues: Portrait Coffins: Relief Sculpture: Painting: Handicrafts: Science
VI. Language and Literature 193
The Writing. Literature: Religious; Dramatic; Triumph-Songs; Love Songs; Stories
VII. Flinders Petrie 218
Appendix 1. Foreign Connections 222
Appendix 2. Marriages and Matrilineal Descent 225
Appendix 3. Scarabs 230
Appendix 4. The New Year of God 231
List of Kings 234
Bibliography 237
Index 240
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