For each meeting, please come into class having read and thought about the readings assigned for that class.
Readings listed with the book icon () are from the assigned textbook, Pomeroy, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, 2nd Edition. All other readings are linked below.
To prepare for each meeting, you need to read:
The assigned chapter from the textbook (Pomeroy—these are short),
The brief primary source excerpts we’ll be discussing in class, and
At least one of the scholarly articles for that week.
Note on Roehrig
Note: The PDF for the Roehrig reading is long, but the content you are responsible for is the articles—which is considerably less than the whole thing. You can approach is this way:
Read the articles (most of which are both short and illustrated):
Section
PDF pages
Book pages
1.
Hatshepsut: Princess to Queen to Co‑Ruler
2-3
87-88
2.
The Joint Reign of Hatshepsut And Thutmose III
5-6
96-97
3.
Senenmut, Royal Tutor to Princess Neferure
10-11
112-113
4.
Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at Deir El‑Bahri
14-17
147-150
5.
The Statuary of Hatshepsut
23-28
158-163
6.
The Proscription of Hatshepsut
39-41
267-269
Look at the pictures on the intervening pages and skim the catalog descriptions next to them.
The statuary and art we have about Hatshepsut is not only the main way we know about her, it’s also some of the best-preserved collection of art and relics from the New Kingdom. Its variety tells us massive amounts of information about the culture from which Hatshepsut came and over which she ruled for so long.