Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt David A Hyman Part literary history

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The Powers That Be is David Halberstam's forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power

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Death, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt David A Hyman Part literary historyDeath, Power, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt uniquely considers how power was constructed, maintained, and challenged in ancient Egypt through mortuary culture and apotheosis, or how certain dead in ancient Egypt became gods. Rather than focus on the imagined afterlife and its preparation, Julia Troche provides a novel treatment of mortuary culture exploring how the dead were mobilized to negotiate social, religious, and political capital in ancient