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Title: Ancient Egypt


1
Ancient Egypt
  • HST 121 Western Civilization to 1500

2
Outline
  • Geography
  • Kingship
  • Egyptian religion
  • Artistic conventions

3
The Nile
  • Identity
  • KMT (Black Land)
  • Agricultural bounty
  • Flood patterns

4
Floodplain profile
5
The Nile
  • Identity
  • KMT (Black Land)
  • Agricultural bounty
  • Flood patterns
  • Agricultural bounty
  • breadbasket of Antiquity
  • Political unity
  • Ease of transportation
  • Ca. 3200, Upper and Lower Egypt united under one
    dynasty
  • Menes/Narmer

6
Egyptian kingship
  • Per-aa
  • Pharaoh
  • Great House
  • Semi-divine
  • god in creation
  • Living Horus
  • Responsible for human society to the gods
  • Maat

7
Egyptian religion
  • Egyptian religion
  • Pantheon
  • Isis and Osiris
  • Egyptian conception of the soul
  • Ba and ka souls
  • Egyptian mortuary customs
  • Mummification
  • Daily life

8
Artistic conventions
  • Mortuary art as a primary source
  • Their usefulness
  • Their limitations
  • The earliest conventions
  • How they changed
  • Akhenaten
  • What he tried to do
  • How realistic was representational art of the
    Amarna period?
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