art, sculpture and design’. His reign was and and the ‘intolerable’ ‘totalitarian’ religion championed was in the trustiest sense of the word atheism’ ‘Akhenaten Cyril Aldred in Akhenaten, king of Egypt (1998) offers a more positive assessment than Redford. While acknowledged Akhenaten’s neglect of statecraft and its consequences, he sees him as an essentially human man, inspired by a genuinely religious vision. According to Aldred, the artistic and poetic feeling of Amarna art and tests like the great hymn to the Aten portray a ruler who loves mankind’. ‘good Hornung describes Akhenaten as first modern human being’ and today a ‘the ‘even very contemporary figure who can scarcely be denied respect and sympathy’. However, he also calls him the first fundamentalist in history’ ‘perhaps
art, sculpture and design’. His reign was ‘intolerable’ and ‘totalitarian’ and the religion ‘Akhenaten championed was in the trustiest sense of the word atheism’ Cyril Aldred in Akhenaten, king of Egypt (1998) offers a more positive assessment than Redford. While acknowledged Akhenaten’s neglect of statecraft and its consequences, he sees him as an essentially human man, inspired by a genuinely religious vision. According to Aldred, the artistic and poetic feeling of Amarna art and tests like the great hymn to the Aten portray a ‘good ruler who loves mankind’. Hornung describes Akhenaten as ‘the first modern human being’ and ‘even today a very contemporary figure who can scarcely be denied respect and sympathy’. However, he also calls him ‘perhaps the first fundamentalist in history’
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