The Temples of Thebes
5x Monday Evenings 13th February - 13th March 2023
Times: 7.30-9pm (UK Times) to join live. Also available to watch again via recordings at a time to suit you.
Over these five evenings, we will be exploring the temples that lie in the great open-air museum that is ancient Thebes, modern Luxor. We will begin by looking at the landscape in which they were built, how it changed over time, how this impacted their development, and purposes for which particular types of sanctuary were constructed. Then, we will take a tour of these monuments, beginning at the stupendous complex of Karnak, and continuing with the temple of Luxor, before crossing the Nile to investigate the temples on the west bank. The latter are mainly the memorial temples of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, but there are exceptions, most particularly the so-called ‘small temple’ at Medinet Habu.
Programme:
Mon 13 Feb The sacred landscape of Thebes
Mon 20 Feb Karnak (1)
Mon 27 Feb Karnak (2) & Luxor
Mon 6 Mar The West Bank (1)
Mon 13 Mar The West Bank (2)
Professor Aidan Dodson
Professor Aidan Dodson is honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1996. A graduate of Liverpool (BA) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD) Universities, he was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo in Spring 2013, and Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. The author of some 25 books, Tutankhamun, King of Egypt: his life and afterlife is due to be published by AUC Press soon.
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