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The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni

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The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni

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Older than Homer by well over a thousand years, and it is advice about listening politely. The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep, an Egyptian vizier's counsel to his son, joined by the Instruction of Ke'Gemni, ranks among the oldest surviving books of conduct anywhere. Translated from the Egyptian with introduction and appendix. Wisdom from before almost everything.

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19 chapters

  1. 1THE WISDOM OF THE EAST
  2. 2THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAH-HOTEP AND THE INSTRUCTION OF KE'GEMNI: THE OLDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD.
  3. 3TRANSLATED FROM THE EGYPTIAN WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX
  4. 4LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1906
  5. 5TO MY MOTHER VII.NOV.MCMIV
  6. 6CONTENTS
  7. 7EDITORIAL NOTE
  8. 8THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAH-HOTEP
  9. 9INTRODUCTION
  10. 10THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAH-HOTEP
  11. 11THE INSTRUCTION OF KE'GEMNI
  12. 12APPENDIX
  13. 13THE INSTRUCTION OF AMENEMHE'ET
  14. 14AN EXPLANATION OF NAMES OCCURRING IN THIS BOOK.
  15. 15BIBLIOGRAPHY
  16. 16THE WISDOM OF THE EAST SERIES
  17. 17Edited by L. CRANMER-BYNG and Dr. S. A. KAPADIA
  18. 18LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

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