Compact discs. Course guide includes bibliographical references. Lecturer: John C. Darnell, Yale University
Contents:
Lecture 14. Saite renaissance: Persian invasion and the coming of Alexander. Lecture 2. Northeast Africa and the land of Egypt: origins of Pharaonic culture -- Lecture 3. Unity in a multicultural society -- Lecture 4. The Old Kingdom: the Pyramid Age -- Lecture 5. The narrow door of the desert: war in the south and the birth of the Middle Kingdom -- Lecture 6. The belly of stones: reunification and the fortresses of the southern frontier -- Lecture 7. "Of what use is this power of mine"?: the rise of Thebes -- Lecture 8. Thutmosis I and the rise of the New Kingdom -- Lecture 9. The king as sun, the sun as king: the Amarna Period of the late Eighteenth Dynasty -- Lecture 10. Diplomacy and buffer states in the Near East -- Lecture 11. The catastrophe: Ramseside (sic) Egypt and the end of the Bronze Age -- Lecture 12. Civil war and the governmental ghouls: the collapse of the New Kingdom -- Lecture 13. The Napatan Kingdom and the resurgence of Nubia -- Lecture 14. Saite renaissance: Persian invasion and the coming of Alexander.
Summary:
John C. Darnell delves into the history of Ancient Egypt from the Pre-dynastic Period through the end of the New Kingdom. In these lectures, Professor Darnell shows that, despite common perceptions, Pharaonic Egyptian civilization existed within a multicultural society subject to disparate geological environments-and that its strength lay in the balancing of contrasting groups and goals.
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