NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hatshepsut, Appeasement, Infant Mortality

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Instruction literature advises man to treat wife well, but control her. Constraints need to restrain woman glimpse of social reality. Seemingly not uncommon to leave husbands/partners. Storm-wind metaphor!: widely expressed in literature (bored?) woman tries to seduce men: Tales of wonder from cheops" court/westcar (wks 14-15) priest"s wife sleeps with a town"s man. 18th maxim of instruction of ptahhotep: don"t be tempted by women in house of friends (common problem?) The family purpose of marriage first and foremost: procreation cf. focus on reproductive ability of women in all media. Childlessness = reason for divorce: but evidence for adoption infant mortality high, ideal offspring: son to follow in father"s footsteps. Ok) priestesses of hathor (from nk) songstresses, or musicians, of gods ( sistra, menits appeasement: esp. songstresses of amun. Wife of amun = title for the queen. Modeled on divine sphere: hathor/isis/mut. King"s mother/wife support king (ok) burial in subsidiary pyramids; In nk valley of the queens (qv)

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