HIST 3370 Lecture 5: Discussion 5 - The Career of Pharaoh Hatshepsut
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Discussion 5 the career of pharaoh hatshepsut. Herodotus visited egypt in about the year 490 b. c. , which was during the 27th dynasty (a time of the persian occupation). While his major interests focused on funerary customs, diet, and some elements of religious practice, he also touched briefly in his record on the status of women. A thousand years before herodotus" visit, in the 18th dynasty, hatshepsut was the fifth. Pharaoh, in the period of the new kingdom. Significantly separated in time, these two examples demonstrate the extremes of the lives of women in ancient egypt. Despite the substantial time difference, it is reasonable to assume that the general position of women in egyptian society in the time of herodotus was not significantly different from their status in the time of hatshepsut. Herodotus provided no thorough description of the role of women in egyptian society, but only a sentence or so on isolated topics.
