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The Tale of Sinuhe and other ancient Egyptian poems, 1940-1640 BC / translated with an introduction and notes by R.B. Parkinson.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection PJ1945 .T35 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Egyptian
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Egyptian poetry--Translations into English.
- Egyptian poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 317 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- These new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1938-1640 BC), and include the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, The Tale of Sinuhe. An introduction and notes explain historical details, and offer for the first time a literary reading, to enable these poems to entertain and instruct, as they did their original audiences three-and-a-half thousand years ago.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0198149638
- OCLC:
- 35741483
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