Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hasan M El-Shamy, Gaston C. Maspero
• Mitarbeit: Hasan M. El-Shamy (Herausgeber), El-Shamy Hasan M. (Herausgeber), Gaston C. Maspero (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Abc Clio Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 7 bis 17 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.08.2002
• EAN: 9781576076392
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-639-2
• Seiten: 432
• Abmessung: 186 mm x 258 mm x 30 mm
• Serie: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Ancient Egypt, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)