Title

FIT Authors Talk: Professor Jennifer Miyuki Babcock

Contributor Names

Babcock, Jennifer Miyuki (Panelist)

Brady, Jenne (Moderator)

Date

2024-10-24

Description

HA professor Jennifer Miyuki Babcock discusses her book Ancient Egyptian Fables: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice.

One group of ancient Egyptian drawings has captured the curiosity of scholars and laypeople alike: images of animals acting like people. They illustrate animal fables originally from a larger mythological narrative, making them an integral part of New Kingdom Thebes’s religious environment. Ancient Egyptian Fables: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice examines the purpose of animal fables, drawing cross cultural and temporal comparisons to other storytelling and artistic traditions.

This publication is also the first thorough art historical treatment of the ostraca and papyri. The drawings’ iconography and aesthetic value are carefully examined, providing further nuance to our understanding of ancient Egyptian art.

Type

Moving Image

Interviews

Subject

Art, Ancient--Egypt

Fables

Animals--Folklore

Egypt--History--New Kingdom, ca. 1550-ca. 1070 B.C.

Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city)

Ostraka

Africa, North

Egypt, Ancient

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_001076