Oedipus and Akhnaton

 

Publishing details
Author:	Immanuel Velikovsky
Title:	Oedipus and Akhnaton
Subtitle:	Myth and History
Publ. date:	1960
Publisher	Doubleday and Company
ISBN	ISBN 0-385-00529-6
LIC No:	n/a
Dedicated to:	Horace M. Kallen

Books by Velikovsky

1950: Worlds in Collision 1952: Ages in Chaos 1955: Earth in Upheaval 1960: Oedipus and Akhnaton 1977: Peoples of the Sea 1978: Ramses II and His Time 1982: Mankind in Amnesia 1983: Stargazers and Gravediggers

Immanuel Velikovsky bibliography  

Oedipus and Akhnaton (1960) is Velikovsky's fourth book, and second in the series following Ages in Chaos. Velikovsky explains that he:

"... read Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, and was prompted to read more about Akhnaton, the real hero of that book. Soon I was struck by some close parallels between this Egyptian king and the legendary Oedipus. A few months later I found myself in the libraries of the New World, among many large volumes containing the records of excavations in Thebes and el-Amarna. This study carried me into the larger field of Egyptian history and to the concept of Ages in Chaos - a reconstruction of twelve hundred years of ancient history, twelve years of toil. [..]"

"... it properly follows Ages in Chaos, Volume 1, which covered the time from the great upheaval that closed the Middle Kingdom in Egypt to the time of Pharaoh Akhnaton. The present short book tells his story and that of the tragic events at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty. In its wake, another volume of Ages in Chaos, too long postponed, will be concluded, bringing my historical reconstruction to the advent of Alexander."^[1]

Book contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Illustrations

Part 1

• The Legend
• The Sphinx
• The Seven-Gated Thebes and The Hundred-Gated Thebes
• Amenhotep III and Tiy
• A Stranger on the Throne
• "King Living in Truth"
• The City of the Sun
• The Queen's Brother
• The King's Mother and Wife
• Incest
• Nefretete
• The King Deposed
• The Blind Seer
• The Blind King

Part 2

• "A Ghastly Sight of Shame"
• "Crowned with Every Rite"
• "A Tomb-Pit in the Rock"
• "Only One Sister O'er His Bier"
• Tiy's End
• "This Was Oedipus"
• King Ay and a "Tumult of Hatred"
• The Curse
• Trails Over the Sea
• The Seer of Our Time
• End

Notes

1. ↑ Immanuel Velikovsky, Oedipus and Akhnaton, 1960, Doubleday & Company, ISBN: 0-385-00529-6

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Taken from: http://www.velikovsky.info/Oedipus_and_Akhnaton