The Egyptian World
The Egyptian World

Author: Toby Wilkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-09-18

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1136753761

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Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overvi

Conjunction, Contiguity, Contingency
Conjunction, Contiguity, Contingency

Author: Leo Depuydt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1993-05-06

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0195359720

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Language is in large part about the description of events occurring in the world around us. Relationships of different sorts may be perceived between those events. And some of these relationships can be expressed by specific verb forms--or by syntactic constructions involving specific verb forms. The present study examines this facet of the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems in isolation, singling out three types of relationships between events and the linguistic means by which they are expressed. The first essay studies the verb form called "conjunctive," arguing that the function of the conjunctive is to "con-join" a chain of two or more events into a single--though compound--notion. The second essay shows how a certain syntactic construction can be used to refer to events that are contiguous, that is, events that succeed one another rapidly in time. The third essay examines verb forms that refer to events whose occurrence is contingent on the occurrence of other events implied or explicitly mentioned in the context. The respective grammatical phenomena are labeled conjunction, contiguity, and contingency. This study constitutes a significant advancement in our understanding of the ancient language of Egypt, and will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Egyptology, Coptology, and the Ancient Near East, as well as linguists, Byzantinists and Classicists.

The Puzzle of the Western Zodiac: Its Wisdom and Evolutionary Leaps
The Puzzle of the Western Zodiac: Its Wisdom and Evolutionary Leaps

Author: Alex A. Gurshtein

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1546219005

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Though familiar to all, the twelve-strong Western Zodiac remains an enigmatic artifice of the archaic past. To date, no scholar has been able to determine who conjured up its constellations and when this might have happened. Nor do we know what the grand design behind this innovative endeavor might have been. This book, however, goes a long way towards answering those questions by combining together a variety of clues from multiple disciplines, including astronomy, archaeology, and linguistics. It provides a comprehensive framework that greatly expands our understanding of the genesis and purposes of this remarkable intellectual relic of our cultural heritage. The books overarching outcome that the zodiacal necklace in the sky appeared gradually over time in three different stages, with each reflecting the immanent social and spiritual concerns of its time provides a fundamental impact to reconsider our understanding of prehistory. No special knowledge is necessary to understand this captivating writing.

God's Wife, God's Servant
God's Wife, God's Servant

Author: Mariam F. Ayad

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-06-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1134127928

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Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological evidence, and containing fifty-one black and white and colour illustrations, the volume discusses this often neglected subject, placing the women within the broader context of the politically volatile, turbulent seventh and eighth centuries BCE.

Minoan Architecture and Urbanism
Minoan Architecture and Urbanism

Author: Quentin Letesson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0192512250

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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion
The 'Orphic' Gold Tablets and Greek Religion

Author: Radcliffe G. Edmonds

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0521518318

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Examines new methodologies used in the study of these tablets. Includes an updated edition and translation of the tablet texts.