ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCHOOLHOUSE

January 10, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, ART AUDITORIUM ART BUILDING Add to Calendar

AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCHOOLHOUSE

Studying Greek in an Egyptian Oasis

PROFESSOR RAFFAELA CRIBIORE
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY


The New York University Excavation at Amheida, the ancient Trimithis, in the Western part of the Dakhla Oasis in the western desert of Egypt, has discovered a fourth-century private residence and the buildings surrounding it. This house belonged to Seranos, a landowner and city-councilor. Adjacent to the house there was a school building. Serenos’ house was originally composed of 11 rooms some of which were richly decorated with painted plaster and scenes from Greek mythology and Homer. Serenos annexed a school that was adjacent to his house. His sons and other young men in the Oasis probably studied grammar and rhetoric there. In room 15 there was a dipinto, a text in verse that exhorted students to learn rhetoric. In another room two texts on the wall preserved verses from Homer and Plutarch. These findings are very important because there are almost no remains of schools from the Greek and Roman worlds.


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Robert Littman, (808) 956-4173, littman@hawaii.edu

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