Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-760184-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic groups, Pharaoh's Land and Beyond uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world. The first section details the geographical contexts of interconnections by examining ancient Egyptian exploration, maritime routes, and overland passages. In the next section, chapters address the human principals of association: peoples, with the attendant difficulties of differentiating ethnic identities from the record; diplomatic actors, with their complex balances and presentations of power; and the military, with its evolving role in pharaonic expansion. Natural events, from droughts and floods to illness and epidemics, also played significant roles in this ancient world, as examined in the third section. The final two sections explore the physical manifestations of interconnections between pharaonic Egypt and its neighbors, first in the form of material objects and second, in the powerful exchange of ideas. Whether through diffusion and borrowing of knowledge and technology, through the flow of words by script and literature, or through exchanges in the religious sphere, the pharaonic Egypt that we know today was constantly changing--and changing the cultures around it. This illustrious work represents the first synthesis of these cultural relationships, unbounded by time, geography, or mode.
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- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures and Plates
- Introduction
- Pearce Paul Creasman and Richard H. Wilkinson
- SECTION I: Pathways
- Chapter 1 Finding the Beyond: Exploration
- Thomas Schneider
- Chapter 2 Paths in the Deep: Maritime Connections
- Pearce Paul Creasman and Noreen Doyle
- Chapter 3 Pathways to Distant Kingdoms: Land Connections
- Gregory Mumford
- SECTION II: People
- Chapter 4 Children of Other Gods: Social Interactions
- Bettina Bader
- Chapter 5 Between Brothers: Diplomatic Interactions
- Richard H. Wilkinson and Noreen Doyle
- Chapter 6 The Armies of Re
- Anthony Spalinger
- SECTION III: Objects
- Chapter 7 The Long Arm of Merchantry: Trade Interactions
- Samuel Mark
- Chapter 8 Artisans and Their Products: Interaction in Art and Architecture
- Stuart Tyson Smith
- Chapter 9 Traded, Copied, and Kept: The Ubiquitous Appeal of Scarabs
- Vanessa Boschloos
- SECTION IV: Ideas
- Chapter 10 Technology in Transit: The Borrowing of Ideas in Science and Craftwork
- Ian Shaw
- Chapter 11 The Flow of Words: Interaction in Writing and Literature during the Bronze Age
- Part I: Writing Systems: Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs in the Bronze Age: Script Contact and the Creation of New Scripts
- Orly Goldwasser
- Part II: Literature: Egyptian and Levantine Belles-Lettres-Links and Influences during the Bronze Age
- Noga Ayali-Darshan
- Chapter 12 All Gods Are Our Gods: Religious Interaction
- Part I: "From Bes to Baal": Religious Interconnections between Egypt and the East
- Izak Cornelius
- Part II: Egypt and Nubia
- Kathryn Howley
- Part III: Religious Interaction between Egypt and the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium BCE
- Nanno Marinatos
- SECTION V: Events
- Chapter 13 Violence in Earth, Water and Sky: Geological Hazards
- James A. Harrell
- Chapter 14 The Fickle Nile: Effects of Droughts and Floods
- Judith Bunbury
- Chapter 15 Illness from Afar: Epidemics and Their Aftermath
- Rosalie David
- References and Further Reading
- Index
