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Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt) Amenhotep III was the
by xref 5y ago
Exciting, just reached this time period in the awesome History of Egypt podcast (highly recommend, it’s History of Rome...but for Egypt)
Amenhotep III was the father and predecessor of Akhenaten, famous for abandoning polytheism and implementing monotheism around the Aten figure. After he died his monuments were destroyed and successors omitted his name from lists of kings as polytheism was restored, including by Akhenaten’s son, Amenhotep III’s grandson, Tutankhamun.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoCheck out the Shabaka stone. While almost 600 years after Akhenaten, it was erected by a black Nubian pharaoh who was trying to return Egypt to its original religion. The stone claims to reproduce text from the first dynasty of Egypt! It focuses on the god Ptah, who is the god of design, craft and creativity — and the creator of the universe. It has some pretty esoteric sections and perhaps even foreshadows the rise of Hermetic philosophy in late antiquity Egypt.
- NamTaf 5y agoThanks for the rec! I'm working my way through Revolutions, with History of Rome next, but this sounds like I'll really enjoy it when I get to it sometime in the mid-to-late 2020s! When I studied Ancient History at school, the period of Akhenaten was the most interesting for me.
- andrepd 5y ago> He has been described as "enigmatic", "mysterious", "revolutionary", "the greatest idealist of the world", and "the first individual in history" I don't get it, why? "The first individual in history"? Anyone has suggestions of where can I read more about him? :p
- marcelnita 5y agoHey, what podcast is that?