Comments on: “Born In Arizona, Moved to Babylonia…”

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:48:31 +0000

By “Someone” I don’t mean to imply that it was the poster who uses the pseudonym “someone.”

Now I’m off to read more Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I want to finish it before I participate in the Tuesday rush to rent the Director’s Cut of Oliver Stone’s Alexander. So much to do.

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 01:41:22 +0000

Charlie—

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9510207675/qid=1122859639/sr=1-31/ref=sr_1_31/103-7431078-3596647?v=glance&s=books

It was a joke. Someone recently suggested to me in a different thread that you had to be able to read Euripides in the language in which he wrote to be able to judge the merits (or lack thereof) of his plays.

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:51:37 +0000

Terrye,

“I look at Africa and the Arab world today and I wonder what happened.” Look at all the great civilisations in the Middle East,the Arabs happened

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:51:10 +0000

I suppose now that I'll never learn Finnish so I doubt I'll ever read Mika Waltari's The Egyptian again. I've got to set up an Amazon Associates account.

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:46:16 +0000

I suppose now that I'll never learn Finnish so I doubt I'll ever read Mika Waltari's The Egyptian again. It covers the same period and was the basis for a '50s movie of the same name. It is, in what I realize is my very suspect recollection, more entertaining than the Drury novels and that's probably why, in my late teens, I preferred the Drury novels.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:20:25 +0000

I saw an interesting Disovery show on Tut and they explained how his death was most likely due to an infection of a leg wound.

I think that the ancient priest class was miffed with Akhenaten for removing them from power. They say that almost all trace of him has been removed.

I have always found the ancient Egyptians fascinating and I have to admit that I look at Africa and the Arab world today and I wonder what happened.

Scientists have also discovered a new planet beyond Neptune. It seems the ancient Sumarians were right.

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:12:20 +0000

So Roger, how would you rate this King Tut show against the first one, which I assume you attended? In other words should I expend effort to travel and see it myself. I thought the first was stunning for its art.

By: PeterUK

PeterUK — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:53:29 +0000

Interesting information on Akhenaten’s appearance http://www.heptune.com/Marfans.html

By: ahem

ahem — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:50:18 +0000

So, is she walking like an Egyptian yet? (Sorry, Roger, couldn’t help myself.)

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:28:56 +0000

I was interested in Ancient Egypt for many years many years ago. I read the two Allen Drury Egypt novels, A God Against the Gods and Return to Thebes, while in college. They aren't, by most measures, in the same class as Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God, but as historical and political novels go they're pretty good—if you're interested in the tumultuous thirty or so years before Horemheb seized the throne and ushered out the Eighteenth Dynasty. Drury thought that Tutankhamun was probably Akhenaten's younger brother.