Popular Literature of Ancient Egypt
Edition: Facsim.of 1902 Ed edition
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781564596048
Subjects: Folklore; Literary studies: general; African; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism
First sentence: FOR many centuries past and until recently the civilised world was accustomed to regard the ancient Egyptians as a people leading a monotonous and joyless life, unrippled by any passing breeze of ordinary human pleasure, and with minds entirely absorbed in meditations on death or in deep religious and philosophical speculations.