Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt : : The Old and Middle Kingdoms / / Julia Troche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Troche, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Anno di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: English
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part One: Death and Power --; 1. Mortuary Culture --; 2. Akhu—The Effective Dead --; 3. Power and Egyptian Kingship --; Part Two: Apotheosis --; 4. Markers of Distinguished and Deified Status --; 5. Distinguished Dead --; 6. Apotheosis in the Old Kingdom --; 7. Apotheosis in the Middle Kingdom --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Riassunto: 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.
• Natura: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501760174; 9783110739084; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754056; 9783110753813
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501760174?locatt=mode:legacy
• Accesso: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julia Troche.

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 Tr...