«Ancient Egyptian Literature in Ukrainian Translations»

Description

The monograph contains translations of ancient Egyptian literary works, religious and temple texts into Ukrainian. The collection presents the first translations of ancient Egyptian works made by Ivan Franko and Lesia Ukrainka from European languages in the late nineteenth century. The section on the literature of the Middle Kingdom is taken from Boris Turaev’s “History of the Ancient East” (1938, translated from Russian), which provides full or partial translations of classic ancient Egyptian literary and didactic works. Translations of literary works published in the 1960s by the prominent Ukrainian historian and cultural figure of the diaspora Marko Antonovych, who had a professional Egyptological education, have been published. Translations of several texts published by Ukrainian Egyptologists in the 21st century (Mykola Tarasenko, Olha Zapletniuk) are collectedю Ukrainian translations of various ancient Egyptian works by the younger generation of Ukrainian Egyptologists Daria Ziborova, Dinara Hereikhanova, Nataliia Bondarenko, and Valeriia Mota were published for the first time. The monograph also contains introductory chapters by Mykola Tarasenko and Daria Ziborova, as well as a biographical excursion by Alla Atamanenko of Marko Antonovych, the first translator of ancient Egyptian texts into Ukrainian. The publication is oriented for scholars in Oriental studies, historians, literary scholars, and students of historical and cultural studies.