OOOK240 Древен Египет. Анатомия на цивилизацията (на английски език)
Анотация:
The course covers a wide range of knowledge in different fields of Ancient Egyptian Civilization. It will focus on the origins of Egyptian culture, including identity (who were the Ancient Egyptians); the bureaucratic mind; model communities; the birth of economic man. The aim is to follow the roots of the civilization and its influence nowadays. The students will learn and analyze a wide variety of topics, covering different fields of study.
The course will give them the opportunity to make the connection between the ancient past and how it may reflect on the intimations of our future.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Сергей Игнатов д.н.
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
Успешно завършилите курса студенти:
1) знаят:
• The history of Ancient Egyptian Civilization
• The basics of social and political models; mainstreams in arts; security and administration of Ancient Egypt
• The roots of Ancient Egyptian Culture
2) могат:
• To recognize main trends in Ancient Egyptian society
• To understand the relation to more than one branch of knowledge
• To understand the concept of civilizations
Предварителни изисквания:
• None
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
- Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
- The formation of the State& a model for early Egypt
- Recognizing religion and ideology
- The roots of culture
- Management and labour (did slaves build the pyramids)
- Pyramid towns in the Old Kingdom
- The Middle Kingdom Town of Kahun
- The society as a body of God
- New Kingdom Egypt
- Monarchy and the cult of Amun
- Akhenaten and the Birth of Monoteism
- Ancient Thebes – the capital of the world
- The birth of economic man
- Late Egypt. Absorbing the Greeks
- Word and image in Ancient Egypt
Литература по темите:
• Kemp, Barry J., Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a Civilization, Routledge, London, 2006
• Hawass, Zahi. Mountains of the Pharaohs. The untold story of the Pyramid Builders. Doubleday, New York, 2006
• Wenke, Robert J. The Ancient Egyptian State. The origins of Egyptian Culture (c. 8000-2000 BC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009
• Ignatov, Sergei. Some Notes on the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.Vol. 80 (1994), pp. 195-198
• Ignatov, Sergei. The Name of the Serpent in the Ancient Egyptian Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor. Gottinger Miszellen: Beitrage zur agyptologischen Diskussion, ISSN 0344-385X, N? 206, 2005, pр. 33-38
• Ignatov, Sergei. The Body of God. Lakov Press. Sofia, 1999
• Ignatov, Sergei. Exploring the morphology of Classical Egypt. The Journal of Egyptological Studies. New Bulgarian University, Vol. III, 2010, pp. 5-42
• Ignatov, Sergei. “The Deserted King…” in Egyptian Literature. The Journal of Egyptological Studies. New Bulgarian University, Vol. IV, 2015, pp. 5-13
• Ignatov, Sergei. “The red line” in the Ancient Egyptian Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor. New Bulgarian University, Vol. II, 2005, pp. 5-10
• Ignatov, Sergei. Word and Image in Ancient Egypt. New Bulgarian University, Vol. I, 2004, http://eprints.nbu.bg/96/1/Word_and_Image_in_Ancient_Egypt.pdf
• http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcivile.shtml
• Egypt’s Golden Empire. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/egypt-golden-empire/
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