A God Against the Gods Author:Allen Drury He was history's first idealist-its first-monotheist-perhaps its first great royal mdaman. Such was teh Pharoah Akhenaten, husband of the fabulous Nefertiti, who 3,300 years ago used his power as a human god-king to challenge not only the existing order of a then already anceint egypt, but the very gods themselves, in his attempt to establis... more »h a "Sole God" to rule the universe.
He put aside Nefertiti to formally declare his younger brother "The Beloved Akhenaten"-he fathered three daughters by three of his daughtes-and he left us teh beautiful "Hymn to Aten," whose stately cadences may have been the inspiration for the 104th Psalm centuries later. And with all his coplexities and contradictions, he was perhaps the most human and touching of all the Pharoahs, for he greatly tried, and greatly failed, to bring to humanity a universal symbol of love.« less