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The Sphinx

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Author : Pete DiPrimio
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-08

The Sphinx written by Pete DiPrimio and has been published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

When people think of the Sphinx, the riddle of the Sphinx of Thebes might pop to mind, or maybe the colossal Great Sphinx of Egypt. Were they the same monster in two different mythologies? Or were they completely different? The Sphinx legend began in Egypt over 4,500 years ago when ancient Egyptians were giving their gods animal forms. Built to guard the royal tombs of the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx had the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. It drew tourists from around the Mediterranean, and soon the mythology of the Greek Sphinx evolved. The Greek Sphinx had the body of a lion and the head of a woman. She terrorized the people of Thebes until a stranger, Oedipus, solved her riddle. Read the myths from these two cultures, and find out how sphinxes have been immortalized in statues and artwork throughout history.

Riddles Of The Sphinx

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Author : Jordan Paul Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Riddles Of The Sphinx written by Jordan Paul Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Great Sphinx (Egypt) categories.

This work tells the story of the Great Sphinx of Giza as egyptology has uncovered it. The author details the Sphinx's impact on the ancient world, on Arab writers, on Renaissance travellers, on the pioneers of Egyptology and on modern scholarship. He tells the story of the Sphinx's many bouts of excavation and restoration and above all, puts the Sphinx in the context of all that is known about ancient Egyptian history and religion.

Memorials Klosterheim The Sphinx S Riddle The Templars Dialogues

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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856

Memorials Klosterheim The Sphinx S Riddle The Templars Dialogues written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with categories.

Sphinx

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Author : Christiane Zivie-Coche
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2004

Sphinx written by Christiane Zivie-Coche and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.

"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt?what is so special about this one?... We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its special features and analyzing the changes it experienced throughout its history. The evidence linked to the statue will enable us to trace its evolution... down to the worship it received in the first centuries of our own era, when Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans mingled together in devotion to this colossus, illustrious witness to a past that was already more than two millennia old."?from the Introduction The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity. Christiane Zivie-Coche, a distinguished Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis." The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table.

The Sphinx

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899

The Sphinx written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Astrology categories.

Memorials And Other Papers Klosterheim The Sphinx S Riddle The Templars Dialogues

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Author : Thomas De Quincey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868

Memorials And Other Papers Klosterheim The Sphinx S Riddle The Templars Dialogues written by Thomas De Quincey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with categories.

Mystery Of The Sphinx

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Author : Karen Latchana Kenney
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2015-12-15

Mystery Of The Sphinx written by Karen Latchana Kenney and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Get closer to solving the mystery of the sphinx with this riveting title. Learn about leading theories, important clues, and study the evidence to develop your on conclusions about the building, purpose, and age of this statue.

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Author : zahi hawass
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 1998

written by zahi hawass and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

This lavishly illustrated, bilingual English and Arabic volume tells the story of the Sphinx from ancient times to the present, focusing particularly on the task - first addressed in the second millenium BC - of preserving it. Published to mark the completion of a major modern restoration project, the book is an invaluable and fascinating document, a testimony not only to the skills of the people who built the Sphinx, but to those who have maintained and renewed it down the ages.

The Sphinx

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Author : Selim Hassan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

The Sphinx written by Selim Hassan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Jīzah (Egypt) categories.

Book Of The Sphinx

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Author : Willis Goth Regier
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-12-01

Book Of The Sphinx written by Willis Goth Regier and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.