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Amenhotep IV , Akhenaton, est le dixième pharaon de la XVIIIe dynastie.

On situe son règne entre -1355/-1353 à -1338/-1337.

Il est le fils de la reine Tiyi et du roi Amenhotep III. Figure controversée, considéré parfois comme l’un des grands mystiques de l’Histoire, il bouleverse, le temps d'un règne, l’histoire de l'Égypte antique en accélérant l'évolution théologique commencée par son prédécesseur et en voulant imposer le culte exclusif de Rê-Horakhty « qui est dans Aton », dont il est à la fois le prophète et l’incarnation.

Parallèlement à la réforme religieuse, son règne voit l'émergence d'une nouvelle esthétique à la fois baroque et naturaliste : l'art amarnien. L'imagerie royale est la première concernée par ce mouvement qui rompt avec la tradition et représente le pharaon et sa famille dans leur intimité.

Sur le plan politique enfin, les choix — ou l'inertie — d'Akhenaton conduiront à la première véritable crise du Nouvel Empire tant sur le plan économique qu'international. Avec ce pharaon considéré comme hérétique, la XVIIIe dynastie touche bientôt à sa fin. Wikipedia  

✵ ?? – 1336 av. J.-C.
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“O sole god, like whom there is no other!”

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Akhenaten livre Great Hymn to the Aten

Great Hymn to the Aten, as translated in The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1 : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958) by James B. Pritchard, p. 227
Contexte: How manifold it is, what thou hast made!
They are hidden from the face.
O sole god, like whom there is no other!
Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,
Whilst thou wert alone: All men, cattle, and wild beasts,
Whatever is on earth, going upon feet,
And what is on high, flying with its wings.

“Thou bringest forth as thou desirest
To maintain the people
According as thou madest them for thyself,
The lord of all of them, wearying with them,
The lord of every land, rising for them,
The Aton of the day, great of majesty.”

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Akhenaten livre Great Hymn to the Aten

Great Hymn to the Aten, as translated in The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1 : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958) by James B. Pritchard, p. 227
Contexte: Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.
Their tongues are separate in speech,
And their natures as well;
Their skins are distinguished,
As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.
Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,
Thou bringest forth as thou desirest
To maintain the people
According as thou madest them for thyself,
The lord of all of them, wearying with them,
The lord of every land, rising for them,
The Aton of the day, great of majesty.

“How manifold it is, what thou hast made!”

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Akhenaten livre Great Hymn to the Aten

Great Hymn to the Aten, as translated in The Ancient Near East, Vol. 1 : An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958) by James B. Pritchard, p. 227
Contexte: How manifold it is, what thou hast made!
They are hidden from the face.
O sole god, like whom there is no other!
Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,
Whilst thou wert alone: All men, cattle, and wild beasts,
Whatever is on earth, going upon feet,
And what is on high, flying with its wings.

“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”

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