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🗓️ 18 March 2013
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:25.2 | 2023. Tease and C's eligibility criteria and geographical restrictions apply. And The Egyptian history podcast episode 8, That Which I Own. |
0:55.0 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
0:58.0 | Last week we examined the monuments of the Fourth Dynasty's third and fourth kings named Jiddefray and Kaffray respectively. |
1:06.0 | Mortuary temples, the center of the funerary cult which enlivened and supported the deceased king's soul or car were discussed, as well as the construction of a unique monument, the great Sphinx. |
1:18.0 | This week the episode is divided into two distinct sections. |
1:22.0 | In the second section we continue our narrative history of the |
1:25.9 | fourth dynasty and talk about Men-Caure, the third of the Giza pyramid builders and his legacy in |
1:31.8 | Egyptian history. In the first part we open a |
1:35.2 | discussion of economic matters, specifically land ownership and the extent to |
1:39.5 | which individuals who were not the king could hold their own estates. |
1:44.0 | It's an economic discussion and I realize that's not for everyone. |
1:48.0 | So I'm going to try a new feature, which I began to test last week and will start including more and more throughout the podcast. |
1:55.7 | I will begin introducing small musical interludes to separate major points of discussion within each episode. |
2:06.0 | This may seem like a slightly unusual structure for a podcast. Normally a history podcast will stick to one basic topic and if there is another big subject to be tackled, they'll give it its own episode. |
2:14.0 | At first, I thought that I would do that as well, |
2:17.0 | but then I realized that the nature of Egyptian history |
2:20.0 | means that evidence for certain concepts, like the economy or the role of women and deities |
2:25.0 | only begin to appear in very specific historical and cultural contexts and cannot be divorced from them. |
2:31.0 | As a result, episodes of the Egyptian History podcast will begin to |
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