#aclw14

Often it is not even advantageous to know what the future will bring. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero 

So here the better picture of my drawing for the mystery mate gift exchange :) mtulliuscicero hope you like it..

The gift for my mystery mate mtulliuscicero for the ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AND LANGUAGES WEEK of c-aesarion :) 

It's a quote from Cicero, Saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit, meaning: Often it is not even advantageous to know what the future will bring. Because mtulliuscicero basically likes Cicero (nomen est omen ;) )

For today, the last day of Ancient Civilizations and Languages Week, the suggested topic is "ancient fashion".

so its only tiny, but its just enough..

After the film clip for this song, all I can think of is Ancient Egypt!! I know a lot of people hate it and think its tacky, I don't care!!

Aside from the title, this song is just soooo Pompeii, the lyrics are subtle and beautiful, I had this playing while I was in Pompeii last year and the lyric "and if you close your eyes/does it almost feel like you've been here before" felt so appropriate

She Wolf; Ancient Rome Foundation story, just gives me those feels

 "I could've been a princess/ you'd be a King/ could've had a castle/and worn a ring" just gives me the old-timey history feels

It just makes me think of Nephthys on the bottom of the Nile "for a sinner like me" particularly makes me think of one of the versions of the myth where Nephthys seduced Osiris

gives the view of the common every-day man during a war or revolution

this needs no explanation, its fun to dance to as well!!

describing a Goddess

gives me the feels

Firstly, this is extremely late.  I have been working all the end of this week and I got lazy and slept.  I am now playing the catch-up game, sorry.

Secondly I did an Ancient Egyptian Literature class in my degree last year so I thought I would share my presentation on one piece of Egyptian Literature!! You guys get to learn about not only the story and the literature side of things but the text as an artefact!! ENJOY!!

Welcome to the tale of Prince Pedrokhons and Queen Serpot seriously Hollywood, adapt this already!!

Yes this was the opening page of my presentation, yes everyone loved it!!

TEXT AS AN ARTEFACT

There is only one known copy of the Papyrus; The Vienna Demotic Papyrus 6165 which is extremely damaged and fragmentary making the story very difficult to read as there is no consistent flow due to missing words

The text has been further published in a series of German Publications which deconstruct the text in a more detailed manner

It also appears in Miriam Lichtheim's Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume III where she gives an English Translation of the text

There has been a less Academic Publication of the story in Tamara Bower's Children's Picture Book "How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt" which use most of the original text with beautiful illustrations to tell a feminist tale

Context of the Story

The story of Prince Pedrokhons and Queen Serpot begins when Prince Pedrokhons arrives in Khor or Syria, a region ruled by Amazons, Pedrokhons invades the area and camps near the principle fortress of the Amazons, Queen Serpot is worried and wants to know how to plan her battle strategy, so she sends her sister, disguised as a man into the Egyptian Army to gain intelligence, upon finding everything out about them she decides to take the offensive and attack them first, when they do attack the Egyptians, Pedrokhons just watches and doesn’t take part in the battle, so the next day Serpot and Pedrokhons partake in a one on one battle, both are such skilled warriors that it continues for the whole day, by the end of the day, both are understandably tired and call an armistice, leading them to begin talking which follows in them falling in love.

The story was written and recorded in the Greco-Roman Period, however the events occurred in the Post-Imperial Epoch when numerous petty princes, who fought each other for power and prestige, ruled Egypt.

The setting of the story is in Khor or Syria even though one of the main characters is Egyptian

The main characters are very clear, I would categorize Queen Serpot as the Protagonist as a lot of the story begins from her point of view “Serpot, Queen of the land of women sat, of her tent…”

Pedrokhons is the Antagonist because he invades the Amazons land without any provocation and the Amazons have to actively seek out the “purpose for which the troops had come”.