Bibliograph

Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt, the Old and Middle Kingdoms, Julia Troche

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Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt, the Old and Middle Kingdoms, Julia Troche

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Death, power, and apotheosis in ancient Egypt

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Julia Troche

Sub title

the Old and Middle Kingdoms

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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