Certificate of Completion
At the end of this course you will be able to download a personalised certificate of completion from the classroom. A great way to keep track of your learning and celebrate your Egyptological journey.
Egyptian Goddesses
7 weeks. 14th April to 26th May
Times: 7.30-9pm (UK Times) Monday evenings to join live.
We love to see you for the live lectures, but if you have to miss one, don't worry, you can of course catch up (or watch again) at your leisure via the recordings. You will have access to the recorded lectures for a whole month after the last live lecture. Recordings will be available until 26th June.
The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt are depicted in a unique and dramatic way that is instantly recognisable as Egyptian, with strange anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and composite forms. Their mythologies can be complex and varied or shrouded in mystery, with glimpses surviving to us through a variety of scattered sources such as statues, amulets, religious texts, temple inscriptions and accounts of festivals.
In this course we place the spotlight on a selection of feminine divinities as we explore the role they played within Egyptian mythology.
Goddesses fulfilled a wide range of functions in the ancient Egyptian pantheon, from benevolent healers to raging flames of the sun, and their reproductive abilities were believed to hold the fabric of the cosmos together. The goddess Isis became so popular that her worship spread far beyond the borders of Egypt, as far north as Britain.
During this 7-week course we will look at texts and images of Egyptian goddesses, and examine what they can tell us about the nature and functions of different goddesses in ancient Egypt.
No prior knowledge is required.
Week 1
The temples and shrines of Egyptian goddesses
Week 2
Tefnut, Nut and Neith
Week 3
Renenutet, Meskhenet, Taweret and Meretseger
Week 4
Bastet, Sekhmet and Mut
Week 5
Hathor
Week 6
Isis and Nephthys
Week 7
Isis in the Graeco-Roman world
Dr Maiken Mosleth King
Maiken Mosleth King is a Honorary research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where she also completed her PhD thesis on funerary stelae and identity in Roman Egypt. She gained a BA and MA in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. She has published academic articles in Gottinger Miszellen and the Journal of History and Cultures, as well as contributing to the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Emotions in Antiquity and Ancient Egypt’ at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway. Her linguistic skills are broad and include Coptic, Classical Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Phoenician, classical Arabic and hieroglyphs, which she has taught for a number of years.
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