Carlos Conversations   /     The Shock of the New: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and the Religious Imagination

Description

In the second of the two new podcasts, Carlos Curator Peter Lacovara of Egyptian Art, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Emory, Shalom Goldman, and Gay Robins, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in Emory’s Art History Department, explore the radical changes to Egyptian religion and art brought about by the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten, the restoration of the traditional religion during the reign of his son, Tutankhamun, and the place that both these kings, despite their rather short reigns, hold in the popular imagination.

Subtitle
A lively conversation about the radical changes to religion and art brought about by the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten, restoration of the traditional religion under his son, Tutankhamun, and the place that both these kings hold in the popular imagination.
Duration
15:10
Publishing date
2008-11-20 21:11
Link
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/conversations/the_shock_of_the_new.mp4
Contributors
  Shalom Goldman, Peter Lacovara, Gay Robins
author  
Enclosures
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/conversations/the_shock_of_the_new.mp4
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