Endnote 10 – Eros in Egypt

On the (half-) divine birth of kings, see David Silverman, “The Nature of Egyptian Kingship”, in David O’Connor and David Silverman eds., Ancient Egyptian Kingship, (Leiden: Brill, 1995), pp. 69–71. The depictions of the divine birth cycle at Luxor and Deir el Bahari are discussed and depicted in Hellmut Brunner, Die Geburt des Gottkönigs (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1964).