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Dialogue, Debate or Argument: Reconsidering a 19th Century (BCE) Classic

by Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications

Lecture Global/Intercultural Humanities

Mon, Feb 24, 2025

12 PM – 1:20 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Understanding remotely ancient texts entails intricate problems. Philological exactitude is sometimes at odds with a translator’s (viz. “reader’s”) thirst for audience with a voice from the distant past. This talk looks at the text on a papyrus commonly known as “The Debate between a Man and His Ba .” It is considered a great — perhaps the greatest — literary and/or philosophical text to survive from ancient Egypt. It contends that its reception in most Egyptological scholarship has been hampered by trying too hard to make sense. The challenge begins right with the title and generic presumptions of a “debate.”
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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Thomas Hare

William Sauter LaPorte '28 Professor in Regional Studies, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature

Princeton University

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies

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