Back الفلاح الفصيح Arabic Història del camperol eloqüent Catalan Klagen des Bauern German Historia del campesino elocuente Spanish Conte du Paysan éloquent French A paraszt panaszai Hungarian Conte deu pagés eloquent Occitan Elokwentny wieśniak Polish O Camponês Eloquente Portuguese Повесть о красноречивом крестьянине Russian
The Eloquent Peasant (Ancient Egyptian: Sekhti-nefer-medu, "a peasant good of speech")[1] is an Ancient Egyptian story that was composed around 1850 BCE during the time of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. It is one of the longest Egyptian tales that has survived completed.[2] The tale is about a peasant, Khun-Anup, who stumbles upon the property of the high steward, the noble Rensi son of Meru, guarded by its harsh overseer, Nemtynakht.[3][4] It is set in the Ninth or Tenth Dynasty around Herakleopolis.[5] This tale is described as an elaborate reflection on the connection – or disconnection – of ethical order and refined speech, as transliterated into refined writing.[6]
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- ^ Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na‘ama (June 14, 2018). "The origin of the Semitic relative marker". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 81 (2): 191–204. doi:10.1017/S0041977X18000496. S2CID 171983928 – via Cambridge Core.
- ^ Simon, Peter; Goff, Gerra, eds. (2018). The Norton Anthology of World Literature (4 ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-60281-4.
- ^ Parkinson, Richard (1991). The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant. Griffith Institute. ISBN 978-0900416606.
- ^ "The Eloquent Peasant (5)". AEL Email List. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
- ^ Parkinson, R B (1999), The Tale of Sinuhe and other ancient Egyptian poems, 1940–1640 BC, New York, ISBN 978-0-19-283966-4, OCLC 317507143
- ^ Simon, Peter; Goff, Gerra, eds. (2018). The Norton Anthology of World Literature (4 ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. p. 1077. ISBN 978-0-393-60281-4.