c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 Tobey Wilkinson, The Tradition of the Pharaohs Lives On; Lessons from
Ozymandias, Horemheb and the untimely death of the boy-king Tutankhamun.
Wall Street Journal, Feb 5, 2011.
http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB20001424
052748704709304576124461259744494.html
My comment:
(a) This is a must-read.
(b) Tahrir Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_Square
The Egyptian noun tahrir means liberation.
(c) Horemheb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horemheb
(Reign 1319–1292 BC; Died 1292 BC)
(d) Hittites
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites
(a Bronze Age people of Anatolia; The Hittite empire reached its height ca.
the 14th century BC)
Hittites never governed Egypt.
(e) For Ozymandias, see Ramesses II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_II
(alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses; Reign 1279-1213 BC; also
known as Ramesses the Great; regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and
most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire; He is also known as Ozymandias
in the Greek sources, from a transliteration into Greek of a part of
Ramesses' throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re)
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Ozymandias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
(a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1818) | y*******8
发帖数: 1693 | 2 why "This is a must-read"?
【在 c**i 的大作中提到】
: Tobey Wilkinson, The Tradition of the Pharaohs Lives On; Lessons from
: Ozymandias, Horemheb and the untimely death of the boy-king Tutankhamun.
: Wall Street Journal, Feb 5, 2011.
: http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB20001424
: 052748704709304576124461259744494.html
: My comment:
: (a) This is a must-read.
: (b) Tahrir Square
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_Square
: The Egyptian noun tahrir means liberation.
| c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 3 The abstract of the book (as published in Wall Street Journal) ITSELF gives a panoramic view of Egypt, which had a glorious past and which I know little, though it is in the news. I do not know about the book which is to be published soon.
【在 y*******8 的大作中提到】
: why "This is a must-read"?
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