Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt (eBook)

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Julia Troche (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
192 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6016-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely 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.

Troche explores the perceived agency of esteemed dead in ancient Egyptian social, political, and religious life during the Old and Middle Kingdoms (c. 2700–1650 BCE) by utilizing a wide range of evidence, from epigraphic and literary sources to visual and material artifacts. As a result, Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt is an important contribution to current scholarship in its collection and presentation of data, the framework it establishes for identifying distinguished and deified dead, and its novel argumentation, which adds to the larger academic conversation about power negotiation and the perceived agency of the dead in ancient Egypt.

Autor

Julia Troche is an Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.

Inhalt

Introduction
Part One: Death and Power
1. Mortuary Culture
2. Akhu—The Effective Dead
3. Power and Egyptian Kingship
Part Two: Apotheosis
4. Markers of Distinguished and Deified Status
5. Distinguished Dead
6. Apotheosis in the Old Kingdom
7. Apotheosis in the Middle Kingdom
Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: power in the pyramid age, Apotheosis in ancient Egypt, Deified Dead in ancient Egypt, Egyptian mortuary culture, Why the Old Kingdom collapsed, Heqaib
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6016-5 / 1501760165
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6016-7 / 9781501760167