Download or read book Les grands sages de l gypte ancienne written by Christian Jacq and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi les Égyptiens n'ont-ils pas écrit leur histoire comme les Grecs, les Romains ou nous-mêmes ? Parce que leur vision du monde, de la civilisation et de l'homme reposait sur une notion fondamentale : la quête de la sagesse et sa mise en œuvre politique, sociale et économique. D'après les textes et les monuments, c'est bien ce fil directeur qui s'impose pour comprendre la durée et la grandeur de l'Égypte. D'Imhotep, le créateur de l'architecture en pierre, jusqu'à Hermès Trismégiste, ultime expression de Thot, le dieu de la connaissance, ce livre met en lumière 28 personnages exceptionnels, les uns illustres, les autres peu connus, qui incarnèrent des temps forts de l'aventure égyptienne : pharaons, reines, maîtres d'œuvre, scribes, prêtres et prêtresses nous font traverser siècles et dynasties. Sésostris, Hatchepsout, Akhénaton, Séthi, mais aussi une initiée du temps des pyramides, un sage de province, un prince archéologue, un scribe des champs et un philosophe emprisonné à tort. Avec cette étonnante galerie de portraits, Christian Jacq propose une lecture nouvelle, originale et personnelle, de l'Égypte pharaonique à travers la vie de ceux et celles que les Égyptiens considéraient comme des sages.

Download or read book La sagesse vivante de l Egypte ancienne written by Christian Jacq and published by Robert Laffont. This book was released on 1998 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plus vivant que jamais le message de paix et d'harmonie de la plus ancienne sagesse du monde "celui qui connaît la réalité, les mythes et les rituels " ; tel se présente le sage égyptien au cœur vigilant, capable de satisfaire Dieu et les dieux parce que son existence entière repose sur la connaissance et non sur la croyance. Accomplir ce qui est droit, rechercher l'excellence en toute chose, ne jamais fuir ses responsabilités, vénérer ce qui est plus grand que lui sont quelques-uns des devoirs quotidiens du sage. C'est parce que la civilisation égyptienne a su créer des êtres de cette trempe qu'elle a vaincu le temps, la barbarie, les envahisseurs et la folie destructrice. Malgré les coups qui lui furent portés, cette sagesse continue à rayonner, à nous toucher. Et c'est elle, sans doute, qui constitue le véritable secret des anciens Egyptiens. Egyptologue passionné, romancier célèbre (sa série sur le pharaon Ramsès II a connu un immense succès), Christian JACQ nous présente les plus beaux textes de la sagesse égyptienne : paroles de pharaons illustres ou de scribes anonymes, inscriptions profanes ou religieuses, elles nous invitent à plonger dans l'éternel mystère de l'Egypte ancienne pour y trouver nos propres sources et, qui sait, une forme de paix et d'harmonie intérieures face à l'agitation du monde d'aujourd'hui...

Download or read book Imhotep the African written by Robert Bauval and published by Red Wheel Weiser. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Exploration of Imhotep—Architect of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, High Priest of Ra, and Royal Astronomer—as Well as His Influence as the True Father of African Civilization. In this groundbreaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their research at the Step Pyramid Complex at Saqqara, Bauval and Brophy delve into observational astronomy to "decode" the alignments and other design features of the Step Pyramid Complex, to uncover the true origins and genius of Imhotep. Like a whodunit detective story they follow the clues that take them on an exhilarating magical mystery tour starting at Saqqara, leading them to temples in Upper Egypt and to the stones of Nabta Playa and the black African stargazers who placed them there.Imhotep the African describes how Imhotep was the ancient link to the birth of modern civilization, restoring him to his proper place at the center of the birthing of Egyptian, and world, civilization.

Download or read book From Poimandres to Jacob B hme written by Roelof van den Broeck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 studies dealing with ancient, medieval and early modern forms of Gnosis, their myths, rites, ideas and expectations, with strong emphasis on Hermetic traditions. Contributions by R. van den Broek, C. Gilly, P. Kingsley, J.-P. Mahe, and G. Quispel.

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Download or read book Iconophages written by Jérémie Koering and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated—taken into the body—as solids or liquids. How can we explain such behavior? Why take an image into one’s own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating it wisely from a distance? What structures of the imagination underlie and justify these desires for incorporation? What are the visual configurations offered up to the mouth, and what are their effects? What therapeutic, religious, symbolic, and social functions can we attribute to these forms of relations with icons? These are a few of the questions raised in this investigation into iconophagy. Iconophages aims to retrace, for the first time, the history of iconophagy. Jérémie Koering examines this unexplored facet of the history of images through an interdisciplinary approach that ranges across art history, cultural and material history, anthropology, philosophy, and the history of the body and the senses. He analyzes the human investment, in terms of culture and imagination, at stake in this seemingly paradoxical way of experiencing images. Beyond the hidden knowledge unearthed here, these pages bring to light a new way of understanding images, just as they illuminate the occasionally outlandish relations we maintain with them.

Download or read book From Akhenaten to Moses written by Jan Assmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses--a figure of history and a figure of tradition--symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus, where Egypt stands for the old world to be rejected and abandoned in order to enter the new one. The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from different angles. Between Egypt in the first chapter and monotheism in the last, five chapters deal in various ways with the transition from one to the other, analyzing the Exodus myth, understanding the shift in terms of evolution and revolution, confronting Akhenaten and Moses in a new way, discussing Karl Jaspers' theory of the Axial Age, and dealing with the eighteenth-century view of the Egyptian mysteries as a cultural model.

Download or read book Researches Into the History of Playing Cards written by Samuel Weller Singer and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigaciones acerca de la historia de las cartas de juego, con ilustraciones del origen de la impresión y el grabado en madera.

Download or read book Biographie Universelle Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constructions of Greek Past written by Hero Hokwerda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1999, a second conference of Hellenists (of all periods and subject areas) from the Dutch-speaking countries was organized in Groningen. The theme of this second conference was ‘Constructions of Greek Past. Identity and Historical Consciousness from Antiquity to the Present.’ The conference theme was described as follows: When seeking to establish its own identity, a culture (country, people, nation) readily resorts to its own history, which it uses either as an example or as something to react against. In recent years there has been a growing awareness that this process often reveals more about a culture in the present day than the historical era to which it harks back: its own identity, and thus its own history, are ‘constructed’ in this way. The constructional approach is usually applied to the birth of new nation states and the development of their national ideologies, particularly in the nineteenth century. But it can be applied more broadly too. Greek culture is an excellent subject area for studying this phenomenon even further back in history, precisely because its history is so long and included several ‘Golden Ages’ to which later periods could (and can) hark back. Greek culture still presents itself as a product of Ancient Greek and/or Byzantine culture. However, the problem of continuity in Greek culture has frequently manifested itself, particularly during periods of radical political, ideological or demographic change. The Homeric influence on the Mycenaean world is therefore also an aspect of this phenomenon. The Homeric world served as an example for later periods, as did the Attic period for the Greeks in the Hellenistic-Roman age. The tensions between the Hellenistic and Roman character of the Greek world had a strong influence on the shaping of the Greek identity during late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Those tensions still exist today (ellenismós/ellenikótita v. romiosyni). The theme was designed to bring together Hellenists of all periods and disciplines (literature, language, history, archaeology, ecclesiastical history, sociology etc.) relating to the Greek world. The colloquium sessions were held in Dutch, but the papers are published in English (two in French).

Download or read book Papers Presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2003 written by Frances Margaret Young and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 40, 41 and 42). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

Download or read book A New Cyropaedia Or The Travels Of Cyrus written by Andrew Michael Ramsay and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Terrie M. Rooney and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).

Download or read book Papers Presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2003 written by Frances Margaret Young and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (see also Studia Patristica 39, 40, 41 and 42). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

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Download or read book M langes offerts Ola el Aguizy written by Fayza Haikal and published by Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire - IFAO. This book was released on 2015 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce volume de mélanges présente près d’une quarantaine d’articles offerts au Professeur Ola el-Aguizy par ses amis et collègues afin de lui témoigner leur considération pour sa contribution à l’Égyptologie, aussi bien dans le domaine scientifique que dans les relations internationales qu’elle a su créer entre l’université du Caire et de nombreuses autres institutions académiques à travers le monde. Professeur émérite à la Faculté d’archéologie de l’université du Caire, où elle a fait toute sa carrière, Ola el-Aguizy a largement contribué à la formation de ses étudiants et au suivi de leurs recherches par sa rigueur scientifique. Devenue doyenne de la faculté, elle a pris la responsabilité du chantier de fouilles de l’université du Caire à Saqqara. Cette nouvelle expérience lui a permis de s’ouvrir à l’archéologie après avoir mené une carrière de philologue. Les contributions offertes dans ce volume reflètent cette double orientation.

Download or read book Exercices d histoire des religions written by Philippe Borgeaud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exercices d’histoire des religions is a collection of the most important articles published by Philippe Borgeaud during his career as the professor of history of religions at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). These nineteen studies showcase the many reflections of the Swiss scholar of religion on the categories and tools used to describe and compare such evanescent concepts as “religions”, “myths” and “rituals”, and his methodology for a critical and comparative study of ancient and modern religions. Through them, readers will gain a clear understanding of the importance such an approach can wield in the contemporary discussions and dissents about religions. Exercices d’histoire des religions rassemble les articles les plus importants publiés par Philippe Borgeaud durant sa carrière en tant que professeur d’histoire des religions à l’Université de Genève. Ces dix-neuf enquêtes illustrent les réflexions du savant suisse sur les outils et catégories utilisés par l’historien des religions pour décrire et comparer des concepts aussi évanescents que les « religions », les « mythes » ou les « rituels », et sur le rôle joué par les émotions dans leur élaboration. À travers eux, le lecteur est amené à découvrir la méthode développée par Philippe Borgeaud pour étudier de manière critique et comparative les religions antiques et modernes, une approche sans doute fondamentale pour mieux saisir les discussions et controverses contemporaines sur ce sujet.