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Love lyrics of ancient Egypt
- Title
- Love lyrics of ancient Egypt / translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PJ1945 .L67 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Fowler, Barbara Hughes, 1926-
- Description
- xv, 85 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Ancient Egypt is often thought of as a gloomy society obsessed with death. But a collection of papyri, dating to the latter half of the New Kingdom (ca.1305-1080 B.C.), presents us with delicate love lyrics that dispel any such illusion. These vibrant love poems, purported to be by boys and girls perhaps as young as thirteen or fourteen years of age, are remarkable for their innocent sensuousness.
- Combining her notable skills as a translator and a poet, Barbara Fowler provides the first accurate translation of these love lyrics into modern English-language poetry. Her renderings are both elegant and correct. They preserve the charm of a long-lost civilization, while making it possible for readers to appreciate one aspect of that culture in our time and through our language.
- Subject
- Egyptian poetry > Translations into English
- Contents
- Papyrus Harris 500, Group A -- Papyrus Harris 500, Group B -- Cairo Love Songs -- Turin Love Song -- Papyrus Chester Beatty I -- Miscellanea.
- ISBN
- 0807821594
- 0807844683 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 94005721
- OCLC
- 29877343
- ocm29877343
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries