Dancing the Magic Dance
In a short break from our narrative, we meet some Egyptian entertainers. The lifestyles of the ancients involved many kinds of festivities: whether it was dancing for a noble hostess, leaping over bulls, or just getting roaring drunk at a religious festival, the Egyptians did it all!
Bibliography
- Adolf Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt, 1894 (1971 edition).
- Barbara Mertz, Red Land Black Land:Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, 1966 (2009 edition).
- Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, 2011.
- William Kelly Simpson(editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
