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Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt : the Old and Middle Kingdoms / Julia Troche.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Troche, Julia, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences)--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Apotheosis--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Apotheosis.
- Death--Egypt--History--To 1500.
- Death.
- Egypt--Civilization--To 332 B.C.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 'Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt' considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia Troche provides a novel treatment of mortuary culture exploring how the dead were mobilized to negotiate social, religious, and political capital in ancient Egypt before the New Kingdom.
- Contents:
- Mortuary culture
- Akhu-the effective dead
- Power and Egyptian kingship: the king as benefactor
- Markers of distinguished and deified status
- Distinguished dead
- Apotheosis in the Old Kingdom
- Apotheosis in the Middle Kingdom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 9781501760167
- 1501760165
- OCLC:
- 1235904207
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