Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt

by Noel Stock and Ezra Pound

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807844683
• ISBN13: 9780807844687
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The more things change...

...the more they stay the same. Boys moping because the girl of their dreams doesn't know they exist, girls positively distraught because their parents don't approve of their one true love... so what makes these poems special (besides their simple beauty)? They were translated directly from 3,000 year old Egyptian hieroglyphs! Read these poems, share them with someone special, and I'm sure you'll both agree - as Johnny Cash once said "There's nothing new under the sun".