In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages. Presents an innovative a

Selections include poetry from pyramid texts, morning hymns, instructions in wisdom, meditations, exhortations to schoolboys, love songs, poems to the king, and

Presents annotated translations of papyrus writings and tomb inscriptions from the middle and late periods of ancient Egypt.

[Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt] certainly represents a landmark. It is the first monograph devoted to an integral study and interpretation of the e

This is the first comprehensive anthology in English of ancient Egyptian lyric poetry.