Carolyn Graves-Brown

Dancing for Hathor

Women in Ancient Egypt

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The fragmentary evidence allows us only tantalising glimpses of the sophisticated and complex society of the ancient Egyptians, but the Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Egyptians had 'reversed the ordinary practices of mankind' in treating their women better than any of the other civilizations of the ancient world . Carolyn Graves-Brown draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture and textual evidence to explore all aspects of women in Egypt from goddesses and queens to women as the 'vessels of creation'. Perhaps surprisingly the most common career for women, after housewife and mother, was the priesthood, where women se… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-0167-9
EAN: 9781441101679
Produktnummer: 13842928
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'388 KB
Abbildungen: 12

Über den Autor

Carolyn Graves-Brown is curator at the Egypt Centre, University of Wales Swansea. She also teaches for the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Swansea.