Ikhnaton
Britishnoun
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The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism, if Author Stacton is right in this astringent, superior historical novel.
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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.
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The well of the past is deep, but, when they have finished the two great characterizations of Joseph the Provider�Old Jacob, and the brilliant, unstable Pharaoh, Amenhotep IV, better known as Ikhnaton, the great liberalizer of Egyptian religion and art, one of the precursors of Christianity, most readers will feel that Mann has made the past's deep waters, at least for a dizzying way down, crystal clear.
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It is true, Stacton writes, that Ikhnaton set aside the prevailing pantheism, in which the god Amon and Amon's priests ruled over a motley array of other deities.
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Egypt's priesthood, Ikhnaton's mother reflects at one point, was "a series of venal officials ... a branch of the police, and only slightly more corrupt."
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