Ancient Egyptian Literature : An Anthology.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Akhenaten's 'Hymn to the Sun' -- The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor -- ''Why, just now, must you question your heart'' -- ''I love you through the daytimes'' -- ''My love is one and only'' -- ''Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond'' -- ''Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals'' -- ''I think I'll go home and lie very still'' -- Songs of the Birdcatcher's Daughter -- The Instruction for Little Pepi on His Way to School -- Longing for Memphis -- ''Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis Ferry'' -- Rebuke Addressed to a Dissipated Scribe -- Menna's Lament -- The Debate between a Man Tired of Life and His Soul -- The Resurrection of King Unis -- Prayer to the King to Rise Up -- Hymn to the King as a Primordial God -- Hymn to the King as a Flash of Lightning -- Prayer of the King as a Star Fading in the Dawn -- The Prophecy of Neferty -- The Testament of Amenemhat -- Two Spells -- Spell for Causing the Beloved to Follow After -- Power from the FourWinds of Heaven -- The Greatness of the King -- Prayer of King Ramesses II -- For a Portrait of the Queen -- Hymn to Osiris -- Hymn to the Nile -- Hymn to the Rising Sun -- In Praise of Amun -- Lament to Amun -- The Tale of Sinuhe -- From 'The Leiden Hymns' -- The Prayers of Pahery -- From the Tomb of King Intef -- The Harper's Song for Inherkhawy -- From 'The Eloquent Peasant' -- The Peasant's Eighth Complaint -- From 'The Maxims of Ptahhotep' -- The Instruction for Merikarê -- The Wisdom of Amenemopet -- Epilogue: The Immortality of Writers -- Chronology -- Glossary -- List of Hieroglyphic Passages -- Sources of the Texts -- Bibliography.

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