LEADER 02444nam0 22003131i 450 001 UON00528044 005 20250516023849.265 010 $a978-10-09-07458-2 100 $a20250402d2023 |0itac50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aGB 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aFamine and feast in ancient Egypt$fEllen Morris 210 $aCambridge [etc.]$cCambridge University Press$d2023 215 $a85 p.$cill.$d23 cm. 330 $aThis Element is about the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt. Ancient, Classical, Medieval, and Ottoman sources attest to the horror that characterized catastrophic famines. Occurring infrequently and rarely reaching the canonical seven-years' length, famines appeared and disappeared like nightmares. Communities that remain aware of potentially recurring tragedies are often advantaged in their efforts to avert or ameliorate worst-case scenarios. For this and other reasons, pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egyptians preserved intergenerational memories of hunger and suffering. This Element begins with a consideration of the trajectories typical of severe Nilotic famines and the concept of social memory. It then argues that personal reflection and literature, prophecy, and an annual festival of remembrance functioned-at different times, and with varying degrees of success-to convince the well-fed that famines had the power to unseat established order and to render a comfortably familiar world unrecognizable. 410 1$1001UON00528536$12001 $aCambridge elements. Elements in ancient Egypt in context$1210 $aCambridge [etc.]$cCambridge University Press 606 $aCarestie$xEgitto antico$3UONC104783$2FI 620 $dCambridge$3UONL000022 676 $a363.80932$cCarestie Egitto antico$v22 700 1$aMorris$bEllen Fowles$3UONV297292$01678351 712 $aCambridge University Press$3UONV245943$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20250620$gRICA 899 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$2UONSI 912 $aUON00528044 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI VII 029/13 $eSI 52709 5 029/13 951 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$bSI202574 1J 20250402Bolla n. 13 del 13.5.2025. 996 $aFamine and feast in ancient Egypt$94380584 997 $aUNIOR