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(More customer reviews)Aiden Dodson has written another thought provoking book on the New Kingdom. The post Ramesses II period has always seemed poorly documented and now we have two books covering this period. The other being Ramesside Studies in honour of K A Kitchen edited by M Collier and S Snape. The trouble with living too long and leaving many offspring seems to be a recurring problem for Egyptian Kings. As always Aiden explains all the views and comes to his conclusion. With 19 pages in the list of works cited you know you are getting an excellently researched book. Excellent.
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The reign of Rameses II is one of the best-known of Egyptian history, with almost every ancient site preserving traces of his time. However, after his death, his dynasty, the Nineteenth, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider ‘royal family' may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among their descendants. Aidan Dodson explores the mysteries of the origins of the usurper-king Amenmeses and the career of the ‘king-maker' of the period, the chancellor Bay. Having helped to install at least one pharaoh on the throne, Bay's life was ended by his abrupt execution, ordered by the woman with whom he had shared the regency of Egypt for the young and disabled King Siptah.Finally, the author considers how that woman-Tawosret-became the last true female pharaoh, and how she finally lost her throne to the founder of the Twentieth Dynasty, Sethnakhte.
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