Ramesses III, King of Egypt - Aidan Dodson

Name: Ramesses III, King of Egypt - Aidan Dodson
Start: 2025-03-01T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Itchen College

Schedule

Sat Mar 01 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Itchen College | Southampton, EN

Saturday 1st March 2025 (1.30pm for a 2 pm start)
at Itchen College, Southampton.
Aidan Dodson: 'Ramesses III, King of Egypt.'
Rameses III—often dubbed the “last great pharaoh”—lived and ruled during the first half of the twelfth century BC, a tumultuous time that saw the almost complete overthrow of established order in the eastern Mediterranean, and among Rameses’s achievements was the preservation of Egypt as a nation-state in the face of external assault. However, his reign also saw economic challenges and increasing dissatisfaction, which culminated in the king’s own assassination.
Aidan Dodson is honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, where he has taught since 1996. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, he was awarded his PhD in 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He was Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016, and is the author of some thirty books, including Rameses III, King of Egypt: his life and afterlife, published by the American University in Cairo Press in 2019.
This meeting is face-to-face only and places are limited.
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Please note that on Saturday the main entrance to Itchen College is closed so access to the carpark is from Whites Road.
Access details and map are also available on the SAES website.