40: Feasting, Laughing and Dancing

Interlude: How the Egyptians Celebrated. From beer halls to temples to cemeteries, this episode explores Egyptian revelry. We focus on two major festivals: the raucous celebrations for Hathor, and the sombre re-enactment of the Osiris story...

Episode 40: Feasting, Laughing and Dancing – The History of Egypt Podcast (egyptianhistorypodcast.com).

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• Music by Vangelis.

Select Bibliography:

• John C. Darnell, “The Opet Festival.” UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
• LA Times interview with Prof. Betsy M. Bryan, Johns Hopkins University.
• E.F. Morris, “Sacred and Obscene Laughter in the Contendings of Horus and Seth,” in Egyptian Stories, 2007.
• Plutarch, Isis and Osiris (1st Century CE).
• The Ikher-nefret Stela (12th Dynasty).
• Additional Music by Vangelis – Alexander (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

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