17: A New Era

The Sixth Dynasty, and its wisdom. Around 2380 BCE, King Teti inaugurated the Sixth Dynasty of Egyptian rulers. Teti married into the royal family and began a new (male) bloodline. This period was creatively fertile, producing famous works like the Wisdom Texts of Ptah-Hotep and Kagemni...

Date c.2380 - 2360 BCE.

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The Teaching of Ptah-Hotep in English translation and Egyptian transliteration at UCL.ac.uk.

The Teaching of Kagemni, translated by Miriam Lichtheim, at Academia.edu. Egyptian hieroglyphs at Rutgers.edu.

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Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.

Select Bibliography:

Naguib Kanawait (et al.) The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Multiple Volumes.

Naguib Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace, 2011.

Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms, 1973 (2006 paperback edition).

Nigel Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age, 2005 (Google Books).

William Kelly Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.

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Release date

Lydbog: 19. august 2013