An Egyptian Princess (Annotated)

Georg Ebers's An Egyptian Princess is a richly textured historical romance set in the sixth century BCE, amid the political and cultural tensions between Egypt, Persia, and the Greek world. Combining court intrigue, dynastic ambition, romantic misrecognition, and antiquarian detail, the novel dramatizes the fate of the Egyptian princess Nitetis within the orbit of Cambyses and the Persian court. I...