114b: Akhenaten, Defining the Horizons

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Amarna (Part 2): Akhenaten's Priorities and Mindset. A short side episode, concerning Akhenaten's mind-set around the time he moved to Amarna. Did the King always plan this city? Did he want to live here forever and never leave? And how did he think about the community he was developing? We explore these questions... Date: c.1357 BCE (Regnal Year 6). King: Akhenaten (Nefer-kheperu-Re Wa-en-Re). Queen: Nefertiti (Nefer-neferu-Aten Neferet-Iti). Locations: Thebes (Waset); Amarna (Akhet-Aten). Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com. Select Bibliography: Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2014. Marianne Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun, 2016. Marc Gabolde, Akhenaten a Toutankhamoun, 1998. Barry Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012. Dimitri Laboury, Akhenaton les grand pharaons, 2010. Phillipe Martinez, “Un monument préamarnien ignoré: Le Ramesséum,” Memnonia 15 (2004): 123-150. Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, 2005. William J. Murnane, The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten, 1993. William J. Murnane, Texts From the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995. Donald B. Redford, Akhenaten: The Heretic King, 1984. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast, episode 114B, defining the horizons.
0:15.8	Today, we explore some extra material cut from the previous two episodes.
0:21.5	If, like me, you enjoy the nitty-gritty of these historical tales, sit back and enjoy a short
0:27.7	chapter about Akanaten's mindset around years five and six of his reign.
0:33.8	This episode is brought you by Stephen C. and Eric R. who became patrons of the podcast.
0:39.8	Also, thank you to Rob Wetherspoon, Joseph Kurtz and Roger Suss, in gratitude for your donations.
0:46.3	Folks, thank you so much for your support. I hope that R10 will smile upon you, making your
0:52.1	crops flourish in the soil.
0:57.3	To everyone listening, thank you for joining me.
0:59.0	I hope you enjoy the show.
1:08.1	The year was approximately 1357 BCE.
1:15.4	Regnal year 6 under the Majesty of Akinaten, king of upper and lower Egypt, devoted servant,
1:22.8	effective son of the solar god. The king was preparing to move full-time to the royal residence he had established a year earlier, and which was now taking shape in the dusty, arid plains of Amarna.
1:30.1	Akanaten and the city of Amarna go hand in hand, like Hemingway and Paris, or Winnie the Pooh and the
1:37.4	hundred-acre wood.
1:38.7	Seriously?
1:39.6	That's the comparison you're going with?
1:41.1	They're so closely associated that you'd be forgiven for thinking the pharaoh always planned
1:46.7	to build his new city.
1:48.7	But that would be a mistake.
1:51.2	Looking back on his early years, there's really no indication that Akanaten had intended
1:56.7	to leave Thebes.
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