期刊名称：Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares
印刷版ISSN：1988-8457
出版年度：2004
卷号：59
期号：1
页码：37-55
DOI：10.3989/rdtp.2004.v59.i1.140
语种：Spanish
出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：In Ancient Egypt one finds two different yet complementary perceptions of the passage of time: one cyclical, characteristic of a religious context, the other linear, distinctive of a secular, civil context. However, both perceptions implied a permanent look onto the past, either because it was taken as a model for the present or because it was regarded as a standard that needed to be surpassed. The political use of history did much for keeping, and transforming, the past in the present; as did personal convenience when it came to autobiographical narratives and even the composition of works of fiction. Given this major concern for the past and for history, one might ask why then history as a scholarly discipline failed to emerge in the land of the Pharaohs? The answer to this question might be that Egyptian society felt no need for such scholarly endeavor, precisely because it developed surrounded by historical texts, which even included Instruments to check on their truthfulness.
关键词：Religious Time;Secular Time;Political History;Lists of Kings;Autobiographical Texts;Works of Fiction;History as a Scholarly Discipline;Tiempo religioso;Tiempo civil;Historia política;Listas de reyes;Textos autobiográficos;Obras de ficción;Historiografía
