Egypt
Recovering the Past: Egypt and Greece
Few ancient cultures have been studied as intensely as ancient Egypt and Greece. But how exactly do we learn about these ancient cultures and their connections? This multimedia event looks at the many ways in which the Graeco-Egyptian past has been recovered. Come and find out all about it—the recuperation of texts on papyri, the […]
Tea With The Sphinx: Reception of Ancient Egypt’s Myth, Magic, and Mysticism
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomAt the first roundtable of ‘Tea with the Sphinx: Defining the Field of Ancient Egypt Reception Studies’ in September 2017 a debate arose surrounding the idea of ‘truth’, ‘facts’, the ways in which knowledge is formed in the popular imagination, and how this relates to reception studies as a field. This prompted discussion surrounding how […]
Ancient and Popular Reception of the Ancient Near East seminar
SOAS Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom'The statue that looked like a sheikh: towards a critical historiography of ancient Egyptian art', Professor Christina Riggs – Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Between Oedipus and the Sphinx: Freud and Egypt
University College School LondonEgypt played a prominent role in Freud’s personal life and writings. From his childhood encounter with the Phillipson Bible, through his psychobiography of Leonardo da Vinci (in which the Egyptian goddess Mut becomes a key to the artist’s sexual and creative identity) to his final work Moses and Monotheism in which he makes the scandalous claim […]
Sara Brio, ‘”The Sphinx’s seamless veil”: Exploring the Religious Reception of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Fiction’
University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomUniversity of Birmingham Research Seminar Arts building, Lecture Room 8. Everyone is welcome!