EGYPTIAN LITERATURE By Ma. Rachel C. Duncil

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EGYPTIAN LITERATUREBy Ma. Rachel C. Duncil
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EGYPT

• Official name
• Arab Republic of Egypt
• Capital Cairo
• Population 54.6 million
• Currency Egyptian Pound
• Official Language Arabic

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EGYPTIAN LITERATURE

• Wide variety of types and subject matter.
• Old Kingdom
• Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom

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THE HIEGROLYPHICS

• Oldest form
• Line drawings
• Ideas and objects.

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HIERATIC SYMBOL

• Simpler than Hieroglyphics.

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DEMOTIC SYMBOL

• Used in commercial documents

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OLD KINGDOM

• Pyramid text
• Non-literary
• High-poetic spells

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OLD KINGDOM

• Cannibal Text
• Represents dead kings.

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OLD KINGDOM

• PROVERBS OF PTAHOTEP
• Book of sound.
• Wordly advice.

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MIDDLE KINGDOM

• Tale of Sinuhe
• Flight of refugee courtier.
• His political reasons.
• Exile and homecoming.

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MIDDLE KINGDOM

• SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
• Sailor who meets an old fatherly in an island.

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KING CHEOPS AND THE MAGICIANS

• Several folk tales in a frame work story.

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NEW KINGDOM

• Style of writing changed.

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NEW KINGDOM

• The Story of King Apophis and Seqenenre
• The Tale of Two Brothers
• Hymn to the Sun
• Contending of Horus and Seth

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NEW KINGDOM

• Hymn to the Sun
• Contending of Horus and Seth

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Late Period

• Written in Demotic

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Late Period

• The Lamentation of Isis and Nepthys and Setna
• The Magic Book

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TYPES OF EGYPTIAN LITERATURE
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RELIGIOUS LITERATURE

• Predominates in Egypt.
• Priests were the only one who can write an make
  records.

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TALES IN EGYPT

• Life of Sanehat (Sinuhe)
• Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor

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WISDOM LITERATURE

• Looked at the codes of behavior and ethical
  values.
• Express kindness and good judgment.
• The Wisdom of Ptahhotep
• The Wisdom of Amenemope

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Pessimistic Literature

• One of the forms that blossomed during Middle
  Kingdom.
• Dialogue of a Pessimist with His Soul
• Administion of an Egyptian Sage

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LOVE SONGS

• Run easily into english verse
• Princess Mutardis
• One who has the most charming bridal song.

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POETRY

• V.
• To whom should I speak today?
• There is no heart of man
• Whereon one might lean.
• VI.
• To whom should I speak today?
• The righteous are no more
• The land is given over to evil-doers.
• VII.
• To whom should I speak today?
• There is a lack of confidants
• Men have recourse to a stranger to tell their
  troubles.
• VIII.
• To whom should I speak today?
• I am laden with misery,
• And am without a comforter.

• I.
• To whom should I speak today?
• Brothers are evil
• The friends of today love not.
• II.
• To whom should I speak today?
• Hearts are covetous
• Every man plundereth the goods of his fellow.
• III.
• To whom should I speak today?
• The peaceful man is in evil case
• Good is cast aside everywhere.
• IV.
• To whom should I speak today?
• Yesterday is forgotten
• Me do not as they were done by nowadays.

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He Walketh by Day by Robert Hillyer

• When the sky is illuminated with crystals,
• Then gladden my road and broaden my path
• And clothe me in light.
• Keep me safe from the Sleeper in Darkness,
• When eventide closeth by the eyes of the god
• And the door by the wall.
• In the dawn I have opened the Sycamore
• My form is the form of all women and men,
• My spirit is God.

• He Walketh By Day
• Robert Hillyer
• I am Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,
• The Divine Hidden Soul who created the gods,
• And who feedeth the blessed.
• I am the Lord of the Risers from Death.
• Whose Forms are the lamps in the House of the
  Dead,
• Whose Shrine is the Earth.

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Thank You