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Popular stories of ancient Egypt / Sir G. Maspero ; edited and with an introduction by Hasan El-Shamy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916.
- Series:
- ABC-CLIO classic folk and fairy tales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Egypt.
- Tales.
- Egypt.
- Legends--Egypt.
- Legends.
- Egypt--Civilization--To 332 B.C.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- cliv, 275 pages ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2002]
- Summary:
- Collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries unearthed a wealth of stories from around the world and published them in English translations for the delight of general readers, young and old. Most of these anthologies have been long out of print. The ABC-CLIO Classic Folk and Fairy Tales series brings back to life these key anthologies of traditional tales from the golden age of folklore discovery. Each volume provides a freshly typeset but otherwise virtually unaltered edition of a classic work and each is enhanced by an authoritative introduction by a top scholar. These insightful essays discuss the significance of the collection and its original collector; the original collector's methodology and translation practices; and the original period context according to region or genre. Certain to be of interest to folklorists, these classic collections are also meant to serve as sources for storytellers and for sheer reading pleasure, reviving as they do hundreds of folk stories, both reassuringly familiar and excitingly strange.
- Contents:
- Complete Stories
- 1 The Story of the Two Brothers 1
- 2 The King Khufui and the Magicians 17
- 3 The Lamentations of the Fellah 35
- 4 The Memoirs of Sinuhit 55
- 5 The Shipwrecked Sailor 81
- 6 How Thutiyi Took the City of Joppa 89
- The Cycle of Satni-Khamois
- 7 I. The Adventure of Satni-Khamois with the Mummies 95
- 8 II. The Veritable History of Satni-Khamois and His Son Senosiris 118
- 9 III. How Satni-Khamois Triumphed over the Assyrians 137
- The Cycle of Ramses II
- 10 I. The Daughter of the Prince of Bakhtan and the Possessing Spirit 141
- 11 II. The Exploits of Sesostris 147
- 12 III. The Exploits of Osimandyas 150
- 13 The Doomed Prince 153
- 14 The Story of Rhampsinitus 163
- 15 The Voyage of Unamunu to the Coasts of Syria 169
- The Cycle of Petubastis
- 16 I. The High Emprise for the Cuirass 181
- 17 II. The High Emprise for the Throne of Amon 201
- Fragments
- 18 Fragment of a Fantastic Story, Anterior to the Eighteenth Dynasty 219
- 19 The Quarrel of Apopi and Saqnunriya 223
- 20 Fragments of a Ghost Story 229
- 21 Story of a Mariner 233
- 22 The Adventure of the Sculptor Petesis and King Nectonabo 239
- 23 Fragments of the Theban-Coptic Version of the Romance of Alexander 243
- 24 Epigraph: On Those Who Caused Alexander to Drink the Death Potion 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1576076393
- OCLC:
- 49875314
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