The Literature of Ancient Egypt, An Anthology of Stories, Instructions and Poetry
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ISBN: 0-300-01711-1
Description: softcover, 350 pp. (20,5x13 cm)
Condition: very good- (pencil notes)
Weight: 395g.
The Literature of Ancient Egypt, An Anthology of Stories, Instructions and Poetry, New Edition, edited with an introduction by William Kelly Simpson, with translations by R. O. Faulkner, E. F. Wente Jr. and W. K. Simpson, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1973
Part 1 Narratives and Tales of Middle Egyptian Literature
King Cheops and the Magicians
The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
The Shipwrecked Sailor
The Story of Sinuhe
Part 2 Late Egyptian Stories
The Quarrel of Apophis and Seknenre
The Capture of Joppa
The Tale of the Doomed Prince
The Tale of the Two Brothers
The Contendings of Horus and Seth
The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood
Astarte and the Insatiable Sea
A Ghost Story
The Report of Wenamon
Part 3 Instructions, Lamentations and Dialogues
The Maxims of Ptahhotpe
The Teaching of the Vizier Kagemni
The Teaching for Merikare
The Teaching of King Ammenemes I to His Son Sesostris
The Loyalist Instruction from the Sehetepibre Stela
The Man Who Was Tired of Life
The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage
The Lamentations of Khakheperre-sonbe
The Prophesies of Neferti
The Instruction of Amenemope
Part 4 Songs, Poetry, and Hymns
Poetry from the Oldest Religious Literature
Cycle of Songs in Honor of Sesostris III
The Victorious King
The Hymn to the Aten
The Love Songs and The Song of the Harper
Part 5 The Scribal Traditions and Several Incomplete Instructions
The Satire on the Trades: the Instruction of Dua-Khety
The Instruction of a Man for His Son
The Instruction of Hardedef
The Instruction of Amunnakhte
The Scribal Traditions in the Schools