Writing, publication and text Publication history Typically, Shelley published his literary works either anonymously or pseudonymously, under the name "Glirastes", a Graeco-Latin name created by combining the Latin glīs (" dormouse") with the Greek suffix ἐραστής ( erastēs, "lover") the Glirastes name referred to his wife, Mary Shelley, whom he nicknamed "dormouse". Shelley had explored similar themes in his 1813 work Queen Mab. The book Les Ruines, ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires (1791) by Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (1757–1820), first published in an English translation as The Ruins, or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (London: Joseph Johnson, 1792) by James Marshall, was an influence on Shelley. Shelley published his poems before the statue fragment of Ozymandias arrived in Britain, and the view of modern scholarship is that Shelley never saw the statue, although he might have learned about it from news reports, as it was well known even in its previous location near Luxor. Although the British Museum expected delivery of the antiquity in 1818, the Younger Memnon did not arrive in London until 1821. The reputation of the statue fragment preceded its arrival to Western Europe after his Egyptian expedition in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte had failed to acquire the Younger Memnon for France. Earlier, in 1816, the Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni had removed the 7.25-short-ton (6.58 t 6,580 kg) statue fragment from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes, Egypt. In 1817, Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias", after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC. 1279–1213 BC), derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre. In antiquity, Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II (r. My play, Vanna Helsing, will be performed.The statue fragment of Ramesses II, the Younger Memnon, in the British Museum.The Power of Female Beauty: Cinderella (2015). ![]() ![]()
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