num_pages: 328
description: Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records where the character and role of an individualinvariably a well-to-do non-royal elite official or administratorwere presented published by inscription and image to a contemporary audience and to posterity. Living Self-presentation in Ancient Egypt looks at how and why non-royal elites in ancient Egypt represented themselves through language and art on monuments tombs stelae and statues and in literary texts from the Early Dynastic Period to the Thirtieth Dynasty. Bringing together essays by international Egyptologists and archaeologists from a range of backgrounds the chapters in this volume offer fresh insight into the form content and purpose of ancient Egyptian presentations of the self. Applying different approaches and disciplines they explore how these self-representations which encapsulated a discourse with gods and men alike yield rich historical and sociological information provide examples of ancient rhetorical devices and repertoire and shed light on notions of the self and collective memory in ancient Egypt.
language: None
title: Living Forever: Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt
publisher: The American University in Cairo Press