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The Pyramids
Pyramid
also: piramis, the Great Pyramid
The great royal tombs of ancient Egypt, most famously the pyramids of Giza. In Az ember tragédiája the pyramid construction appears in scene 3 (the Egyptian scene) as the symbol of tyrannical state power — monumental beauty built on slave labor and human suffering.
Reading notes
- The Tragedy of Man §4 pyramids
The great royal tombs of ancient Egypt, most famously the pyramids of Giza. In Az ember tragédiája the pyramid construction appears in scene 3 (the Egyptian scene) as the symbol of tyrannical state power — monumental beauty built on slave labor and human suffering.