Ancient Egyptian Love Songs
The History of Egypt Podcast
Dominic Perry
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2015
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:22.0 | You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Welcome to an Egyptian history podcast mini episode, Happy Valentine's. |
| 0:46.0 | A story of lovers, marriage and all that comes with human relationships. |
| 0:51.0 | Music by Michael Levy and Keith Zisser. If I am not beside you, where will you set your desire? If you do not embrace me and seize the moment, |
| 1:16.3 | whom will you approach for pleasure? Would you depart because you have the urge to eat? Are you a man who is more devoted to his stomach? |
| 1:25.9 | Would you depart in your fine clothing |
| 1:28.2 | while I am left with nothing but the bedsheets? |
| 1:32.0 | Would you leave me for the sake of drink |
| 1:34.5 | then take my breast for its milk wells up for you |
| 1:38.2 | more wondrous is a single day in your embrace |
| 1:41.4 | than a hundred thousand upon the earth. The Papyrus Harris number |
| 1:46.0 | 500, New Kingdom. To write love poetry in ancient Egypt was an uncommon skill. Few had the literacy needed to write, and even fewer had both the literacy and the creativity to compose. |
| 2:01.0 | But for those who did, immortality in verse has been their reward. |
| 2:07.0 | The love poems of ancient Egypt are difficult to translate and understand by our standards. The Egyptians use different metaphors to us |
| 2:15.0 | and different analogies. |
| 2:17.0 | So when they compare a lover to something equally valuable, |
| 2:20.0 | the comparison may be wasted on us today. We have to use our imagination. |
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