The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.

by Parkinson, R. B.

• ISBN13: 9780198149637
• ISBN10: 0198149638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

These new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1938-1640 BC), and include the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, The Tale of Sinuhe . An introduction and notes explain historical details, and offer for the first time a literary reading, to enable these poems to entertain and instruct, as they did their original audiences three-and-a-half thousand years ago.

Table of Contents

Note on the Translations	xii
Introduction	1	(20)
Tales	21	(110)
1 The Tale of Sinuhe	21	(33)
2 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant	54	(35)
3 The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor	89	(13)
4 The Tale of King Cheops' Court	102	(29)
Discourses	131	(72)
5 The Words of Neferti	131	(13)
6 The Words of Khakheperreseneb	144	(7)
7 The Dialogue of a Man and his Soul	151	(15)
8 The Dialogue of Ipuur and the Lord of All	166	(37)
Teachings	203	(84)
9 The Teaching of King Amenemhat	203	(9)
10 The Teaching for King Merikare	212	(23)
11 The `Loyalist' Teaching	235	(11)
12 The Teaching of the Vizier Ptahhotep	246	(27)
13 The Teaching of Khety	273	(14)
Phrases and Fragments	287	(10)
14 Phrases and Fragments	287	(10)
Map	297	(1)
Glossary	298	(2)
Chronology	300	(2)
Select Bibliography	302