Word: ikhnaton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruitful framework for an inter-disciplinary approach, with courses presenting the art, history, political institutions, and philosophies of these ancient cultures on the successful pattern of Soc Sci 111. Harvard may not accommodate a Breasted, but it could certainly enrich its history curriculum with studies of Memphis or Ikhnaton, of Nebuchadrezzar of Chaldea--a sore deficiency in the University at present...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. An astringent tale, several notches above the usual historical novel, of Egypt's neurotic Pharaoh Ikhnaton and his attempts to replace the old gods with a new and self-centered religion...
Since courtiers must have a court, the nobility followed Ikhnaton to the half-finished city and mumbled nimbly when priests chanted new hymns. But however fervent the chanting and however often the courtiers assured Pharaoh that he would not die (death was expunged in the new theology), Aton worship was never more than a plaything, tolerated because it kept Ikhnaton from more destructive games...