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Based on life of Akhenaten IV, 10th King and Pharaoh of Egypt.Tags
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A well-researched, capably written. Not a page-turner to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the magnitude of his goal of shifting society's Amon-centric culture & religion to a singular monotheistic cult of the Aten.
Amonhtep seeks to lessen Amon and his priest power and pays a high price. His son Ankenaten grow to hate Amon and love Aton. In the book Akhenaten starts out as a handsome child, then becomes the disfigured man of his portraits. As he grows and changes he becomes more and more strange. He also becomes obsessed with the Aton. The book ends shortly after he becomes the sole Pharaoh, when he has declared Aton the sole god of Egypt and moved his city.
I knew the Pharaohs married their sisters, but in this book they also marry their daughters. Somehow that idea really disturbed me.
I knew the Pharaohs married their sisters, but in this book they also marry their daughters. Somehow that idea really disturbed me.
A well researched book but not nearly as well written as the classic "The Egyptian" nor as entertaining as some of the non-fiction books that cover this era. The first book "Birth of a God" is a very slow read and very confusing. It took me until the end of that book (or chapter) to realize that each chapter title would tell me the POV of that section.
Historical novel of Akhenaten.
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- Canonical title
- A God Against the Gods
- Original title
- A God Against the Gods
- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- Akhenaten (Ahkenaton, Amenhotep IV, Amunhotep IV); Nefertiti; Amonhotep; Amon; Aton
- Important places
- Africa; Egypt; El Amarna, Egypt (Horizon of the Aten, Akhetaten)
- Dedication
- Dedicated to
THEM
Slitting or standing, as the mood or the ritual occasion dictated when they posed for the royal sculptures millennia ago, they stare ple... (show all)asantly out upon the long green snake of Egypt - which they called KEMET "The Black Land" - and the dessert wastes of "the Red Land" beyond.
They have been there, some of them, Five thousand years and more.
If there is an Earth five thousand years form now, some of them will doubtless be there still.
Smiling, happy, confident, serene, ravaged no longer by the fierce ambitions and violent passions that often moved behind those deliberately impervious formal masks, they have a satisfaction, not given to many, which they will never know but seldom doubted:
They always said they would live forever.
And as forever goes in the lives of men, they have. - First words
- Amonhotep, S.H. So do I sign myself, remembering the small, wizened, modest man who gave me life, thinking thereby to give him in return a fame of which he never dreamed in all his sixty humble years as a farmer:
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They have no choice.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .D794 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 14
