Mini Episode: A Wayward Scribe (The Drinking)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A former pupil goes off the rails and gets lost in drink; his teacher tries to bring him back. After completing his education, a young scribe might take a job in a temple, government office, or work team. But this time, the student went off into some wayward behaviours. Writing a stern letter, a schoolmaster tries to bring his former pupil back to sobriety and good living. Translations by John L. Foster, Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology (Amazon) Website: egyptianhistorypodcast.com Twitter: @EgyptianPodcast Instragram: @EgyptPodcast Facebook: @EgyptPodcast Patreon: EgyptPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	After years of study, his skills are ready.
0:56.0	He can begin his journey on the path of life.
0:59.0	With literacy in his mind and discipline on his back, the young scribe is out on his own.
1:06.3	A bright career is ahead.
1:09.8	Two years later, Word comes home, Word of the scribe and his fortunes following school.
1:17.0	An Egyptian teacher, a master, receives news of his former pupil.
1:22.2	What he hears he does not like. The student has fallen off the path.
1:28.4	He has become caught in a life of carelessness, drunkenness and overindulgence.
1:35.0	Dissipated, the scribe does not continue his works.
1:38.6	Instead, he idols in pleasures and loses himself in a whirl of opportunistic lust. This will never do.
1:49.4	On a large papyrus scroll, written around 1200
1:53.2	b.C.E. a series of texts provide us a glimpse at the educational
1:58.2	tools of Egyptian scribes. These texts include a range of letters, instructions, hymns and manifestos, some dating back a few hundred years, others more recent.
2:12.0	Among the many wonderful pieces we find a letter written from a school master to his former
2:18.8	pupil.
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