Eros on the Nile
Contributors: Geoffrey L. Packer (Translator)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: February 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801440007
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Customs; Social & cultural anthropology; Art; History: World; History; History - General History; Sex; Ancient Egypt; Human Sexuality; Ancient - Egypt; Archaeology; History - General; Mythology, Egyptian; Religious aspects
First sentence: The cult of fertility, which was dominant in the primitive religious ideas of Nile valley residents at the end of the Neolithic Age, was mirrored in many ways in the Egyptian religion of the pharaonic period.