Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt

By Gaston Maspero and Agnes Sophia Griffith Johns

Book Overview

Makes available a difficult-to-find folkloric scholarship classic and illuminates it with contemporary commentary from a preeminent authority on Egyptian folktales.

Gaston Maspero is a towering figure in Egyptology. Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt offers a wealth of primary data and authoritative commentaries on ancient Egyptian culture, language, history, society, and ethnic groups as depicted in Egyptian and Greek-Egyptian narratives. The work provides the contextual data necessary for understanding the tale-texts and reflects Maspero's deep knowledge of many fields, from the classics to life in modern Egypt.

This new edition includes a contemporary foreword, which introduces Maspero and describes his scholarship. It also provides, for the first time, extensive identification of the ancient stories in terms of international tale-types and motifs. The new information places the anthology in a broader academic context and is a valuable resource for students of Egyptology, folklore, literature, history, and social and cultural anthropology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576076393
• ISBN13: 9781576076392
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12