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Daniel Stolzenberg Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 307, $50.00, £35.00, ISBN 978 0 226 92414 4.

Daniel Stolzenberg Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity (Chicago:... We seem to have entered a simultaneously challenging and inspiring phase in the long history of the post-pharaonic reception of Ancient Egypt. In Egypt itself, the news sometimes seems bleak. Just last summer, in August 2013, the antiquities collection of the Mallawi Museum, one of the country’s regional antiquities museums, was violently sacked and vandalized by protesters inflamed by the ouster of the Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi. (Many of the artifacts have since been recovered). The previous month, in the bustling city Giza (on the west bank of the Nile, near Cairo), Mahmoud Mokhtar’s patriotic, pharaonic-themed monument, Nahdet Masr (“Egypt’s Awakening,” 1928) was likewise vandalized and desecrated by pro-Morsi demonstrators. Mokhtar’s sculpture group, which was moved here in 1955 from its original location in front of the railway station in Cairo’s Ramses Square, shows a female personification of Egypt, one hand resting on an accompanying sphinx, lifting a heavy veil from her head to face the light of the modern world. It is far from clear how Egypt’s complex and sometimes conflicted relationship to its pharaonic past, aggravated as it is by political events, will play out in the end. Meanwhile, the study of the reception of pharaonic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early Science and Medicine Brill

Daniel Stolzenberg Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 307, $50.00, £35.00, ISBN 978 0 226 92414 4.

Early Science and Medicine , Volume 19 (2): 200 – May 27, 2014

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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1383-7427
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1573-3823
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10.1163/15733823-00192p08
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Abstract

We seem to have entered a simultaneously challenging and inspiring phase in the long history of the post-pharaonic reception of Ancient Egypt. In Egypt itself, the news sometimes seems bleak. Just last summer, in August 2013, the antiquities collection of the Mallawi Museum, one of the country’s regional antiquities museums, was violently sacked and vandalized by protesters inflamed by the ouster of the Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi. (Many of the artifacts have since been recovered). The previous month, in the bustling city Giza (on the west bank of the Nile, near Cairo), Mahmoud Mokhtar’s patriotic, pharaonic-themed monument, Nahdet Masr (“Egypt’s Awakening,” 1928) was likewise vandalized and desecrated by pro-Morsi demonstrators. Mokhtar’s sculpture group, which was moved here in 1955 from its original location in front of the railway station in Cairo’s Ramses Square, shows a female personification of Egypt, one hand resting on an accompanying sphinx, lifting a heavy veil from her head to face the light of the modern world. It is far from clear how Egypt’s complex and sometimes conflicted relationship to its pharaonic past, aggravated as it is by political events, will play out in the end. Meanwhile, the study of the reception of pharaonic

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Published: May 27, 2014

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