Anthologies


Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms

Author: Loprieno, Antonio
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 1996

The development and the characteristics of the literature of Ancient Egypt over a period of more than two millennia, from the monumental origins of autobiographies at the end of the Old Kingdom down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Greek-Roman Period.



Ancient Egyptian Literature. 
* Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdom
Volume II: The New Kingdom
* Volume III: The Late Period

Author: Lichtheim, Miriam
Publisher: Los Angeles, 1975 - 1980

These works include a fine selection of texts of different genres, translated in a comprehensive English and an interesting and concise introduction to the literary genres and styles of Ancient Egypt.
















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