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.
Intrigue, Seduction, and Deception in texts: A Late Egyptian reading class.
with Dr Luigi Prada6 weeks: 14, 21 & 28th October -week off- 11, 18 & 25th November
Times: 7.30-9pm* (UK Times) Tuesday 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 25th December
Many of us have read the Middle Egyptian classics of the Middle Kingdom, from Sinuhe to the Shipwrecked Sailor. But what about their New Kingdom counterparts? Often neglected due to their supposed ‘folkloric’ nature and more ‘prosaic’ syle, these Late Egyptian texts deserve in fact equal attention, as some of humanity’s early literary masterworks.
From narrative texts to lyrical compositions, from drammatic plot twists to hilarious pantomimes, the variety offered by New Kingdom literature in Late Egyptian is staggering, and makes for a fantastic smorgasbord of textual treats.
In this course, you will first receive essential language instruction in Late Egyptian, and will then delve into a selection of extended passages from some of the most famous literary works of the New Kingdom. Following the first class and a full immersion in Late Egyptian grammar, the other five sessions will be spent reading from the ‘Contendings of Horus and Seth’* and the ‘Tale of the Two Brothers’, but other texts too may be included, depending on the preferences and interests of the class participants.
This course will appeal not only to students with an interest in Egyptian language, texts, and literature, but also in religious and cultural topics. All copies of the texts and reading materials will be provided in advance by the instructors. Participants are welcome to prepare the texts in advance of each session, to be then discussed and compared, under the teacher’s guidance, in the virtual classroom. It is recommended that participants should have at least one year of study practice of hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian in order to attend this course, but please feel free to contact the instructor in advance, should you have questions.
*A Note for Students who have attended Kemet Klub’s previous course on the Contendings of Horus and Seth: This course will be looking at different sections of the text than those we covered before.
Dr Luigi Prada
Dr Luigi Prada is Associate Professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University (Sweden). Prior to this appointment, he held academic positions in the UK (Oxford), Germany (Heidelberg), and Denmark (Copenhagen). His main research interests are in textual, social, and religious topics. His publications include editions of texts from ancient Egypt in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic, and Greek. He has worked in the field as an epigraphist in both Egypt and Sudan, and is assitant director of the joint Oxford-Uppsala fieldwork project in Elkab (southern Egypt).
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