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  title info:
    title: Imagining the past
    sub title: historical fiction in New Kingdom Egypt
  name:
    name part: Manassa, Colleen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: egy
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city. Shortly after the rise to power of the warrior pharaoh Ramesses II ("the Great"), Egyptian authors began to write stories about battles and conquest. However, these stories were not set in the present, but in the past. They were the world's first works of historical fiction. These literary recreations of past events, which preserve fascinating mixtures of fact and fiction, provide unparalleled information about topics as diverse as ancient Egyptian historiography, religion and notions of humor and wit. Imagining the Past is the first volume to provide complete translations and commentary for the historical fiction composed during Egypt's New Kingdom. The four tales included here represent a multifaceted approach to history and its actors. The Quarrel of Apepi and Seqenenere, set at the end of the Second Intermediate Period, preserves details of political history and taxation that are attested in contemporaneous sources. In The Capture of Joppa, a historically-attested general Djehuty from the reign of Thutmose III successfully defeats the ruler of Joppa through one of the first attested stratagems in world military history. Royalty takes center stage with Thutmose III in Asia, whose fragmentary narrative may be a fictional presentation of the Battle of Megiddo. The Libyan Battle Story, composed only a generation after the Battle of Perire, contains abundant historical details attested in hieroglyphic and hieratic sources and borders on fictionalized history. A concluding analysis summarizes the audience and function of historical fiction as well as theology and historiography within the tales. An appendix of the hieroglyphic texts, all transliterated with philological commentary, make these texts accessible to a wide audience, while representing the first critical scholarly edition of…
  table of contents: 1. Intimations of an earlier age : history and fiction in New Kingdom Egypt -- 2. The quarrel of Apepi and Seqenenre -- 3. The capture of Joppa -- 4. Thutmose III in Asia -- 5. The Libyan battle story -- 6. A thematic survey of New Kingdom historical fiction -- Appendix 1: BM EA 10185 (P. Sallier I) -- Appendix 2: BM EA 10060 (P. Harris 500) -- Appendix 3: P. Turin 1940+1941 -- Appendix 4: P. Louvre N3136.
  note: Colleen Manassa.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
  subject:
    topic: Historical fiction, Egyptian
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Egyptian literature
    topic: Translations into English
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: To 332 B.C
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  classification: PJ1487 .M36 2013
  classification: 893/.1
  identifier: 9780199982226 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0199982228 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 2013036266
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130913
    record change date: 20170928110524.0
    record identifier: in00003613139