Graeco-Aegyptiaca lecture V: Ian Rutherford (University of Reading), will give a paper entitled ‘Theogonies and Theomachies in Egypt, Greece and Elsewhere. Comparisons, Connections and Speculations’.
Abstract
In the last few decades a consensus has emerged that Hesiod’s Theogony and other early Greek myths about the origin of the gods are related to earlier mythological narratives found in Syria and Anatolia. Egyptian mythology has generally been regarded as different and (with a small number of exceptions) not belonging to this Greek-Syrian-Anatolian-Mediterranean tradition. This paper will suggest a revision to this view. It will consider a number of Egyptian narratives and motifs, including the Egyptian succession myth preserved in the so-called Heliopolitan Theogony and the role of the god Geb, whom the Greeks with good reason equated with Kronos.
‘Theogonies and Theomachies in Egypt, Greece and Elsewhere. Comparisons, Connections and Speculations’ is the fifth event in the Graeco-Aegyptiaca seminar series given in the field of ancient Egyptian and Greek cultural relations. For more information on the series, please visit the UCL or the Palladion website.
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