To counter them, Amenhotep has made his six-year-old son Tuthmose high priest of another cult, and plans on making him co-regent. Amenhotep had hoped to control the priests of Amon by making his wife’s brother, Aanen, the High Priest, but as Tiye feared, Aanen has tried to make the priests of Amon of equal power with the throne. The House of Thebes had encouraged devotion to the god Amon-Ra, whose cult has become very powerful. The chief counselor to the Pharaoh is her brother, Aye, who has a reputation for wisdom. However, though the long-reigning Pharaoh Amenhotep III is popular, he is not very active, and the day to day rule of the empire is actually performed by his wife, Queen Tiye, who is beloved and is known as the Great Wife. The ancient Egyptian empire, which stretched from modern day Syria across northern Africa, has reached its apex under the House of Thebes, the ruling family of the 18th dynasty. īoth A God Against the Gods and Return to Thebes were reprinted in 2015 by WordFire Press. According to Drury the political struggles of Egypt resembled those of Washington, D. It is told in a series of monologues by the various characters.ĭrury wrote a 1977 sequel, Return to Thebes, and a 1980 nonfiction book about Egypt. A God Against the Gods is a 1976 historical novel by political novelist Allen Drury, which chronicles ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's attempt to establish a new religion in Egypt.
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