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- Buy Oedipus and Akhnaton. In Oedipus and Akhnaton, Immanuel Velikovsky identifies the scene and all the personages of the Greek Oedipus legend with the life patterns of the family of the Egyptian King Akhnaton. Akhnaton (written in 1937, published. Oedipus and Akhnaton (1960) is Velikovsky's fourth book.
- Oedipus and Akhnaton (1960). Sharon, Ruth Velikovsky (2010): Immanuel Velikovsky - The Truth Behind the Torment, Paradigma (new revised edition).
Velikovsky is a controversial figure, whether writing about Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos (which do not seem so remote as when he envisioned them)- or today with his provocative theory relating to the Oedipus legend.
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Published June 26th 1980 by Sphere (first published January 1st 1960)
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Mar 10, 2012Joy rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This is a more speculative book, as Velikovsky says himself. He notes that the myth of Oedipus, today known from Greek authors, contains cultural elements that are not Greek. For example, the family is being punished because Oedipus's father chose a boy as lover. This was an accepted part of ancient Greek life, certainly not something to be punished by the Greek gods and fate for generations. Then there is the presence of a Sphinx, an Egyptian figure. This led him to look at the other Thebes, th...more
Sep 02, 2013George Kaposi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Although maligned for his theories regarding major astronomical events in historical memory, Velikovsky, a veritable polymath, seems more persuasive regarding his questioning of the accepted chronology of the ancient world, and especially ancient Egypt.
This book does not deal with difficult chronological issues but deals with the common themes running through stories of Oedipus and Akhnaton and builds a case the the 'myth' of Oedipus is actually based on historical events during Pharaoh Akhnaton...more
This book does not deal with difficult chronological issues but deals with the common themes running through stories of Oedipus and Akhnaton and builds a case the the 'myth' of Oedipus is actually based on historical events during Pharaoh Akhnaton...more
Aug 14, 2009Toni rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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'Broadly speaking, Velikovsky argues that the Pharaonic house and family of Amenhotep III through Ay of the 18th Dynasty in New Kingdom Egypt provides the historical inspiration for the Greek myth of the Theban rulers from Laios through Kreon.' So says the author of one of the web pages that examines Velikovsky's theory that the myth of Oedipus, who killed his father, answered the riddle of the sphinx, and married his mother is derived from an Eqyptian renegade pharaoh and his family. It was one...more
Apr 03, 2015Orgon Solo rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Was quite hesistant to pick up this book by the great author and scholar Velikovsky. IIts taking it too far Ithought. But as I read through the pages a whole other story unveiled itself. And me not being very knowledgeable in the study of pharaoes and egypt and all that jazz could after a while think that this is a very interesting perspective after all. I wonder if there are anyone who has picked up on the trail left here in this book?
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Mar 05, 2009Matt rated it really liked it · review of another edition
this was a really interesting book. Velikovsky does some rather ocnvincing speculation that the Egyptian Pharoah Akenhaton (the one who went crazy and changed age old traditions of religion and art) was the real world inspiration for the Greek character Oedipus.
A worthwhile read (if you can find it!) if you have any interest in Greek Mythology, or Ancient Egyptian history. It's like ancient conspiracy theory!!
A worthwhile read (if you can find it!) if you have any interest in Greek Mythology, or Ancient Egyptian history. It's like ancient conspiracy theory!!
Apr 06, 2008Rae rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Velikovsky asks why the Oedipus legend has a sphinx outside the city of Thebes, when the sphinx is not a part of Greek mythology. He then attempts to connect the Greek legends with historical events in Egypt involving the pharaoh Akhnaton and his family. I was fascinated by this book and whether it is true or not is irrelevant because it makes you reexamine what you think you know about history.
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Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-born American independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Velikovsky is a controversial figure, whether writing about Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos (which do not seem so remote as when he envisioned them)- or today with his provocative theory relating to the Oedipus legend. This is an ingenious and often entertaining and persuasive attempt to equate the myth of King Oedipus with the historical facts about the great Egyptian reformer-king, Akhnaton, Egypt's builder of a monotheistic cult. The drive behind this book is the finding of an historical basis for a familiar myth. Just as Schliemann by his excavations at Troy turned Helen from a legend into a woman of flesh and blood, so Velikovsky approaches the Oedipus myth. The key facets of the myth- the exiled prince who returns to his native land not (even Velikovsky admits) to slay his father but to marry his mother, and who brought destruction thereby upon his native land and was sent forth discredited -- can be made, with a bit of pushing and pulling, to apply to the similar story of Akhnaton. Part of the claim is that Thebes in Greece took its name from the older Thebes in Egypt. The Egyptian story is loose and inexact, as reality is apt to be; the Greek myth is tightened by the Greek gift for story telling. It will be for scholars and Egyptologists to explore Velikovsky's thesis. His scholarship in this field has yet to be proved, though as usual he has used his theme as a book to hang his very considerable fund of knowledge and his inexhaustible fancies on. He writes with imagination and style. This book, however controversial, is certainly entertaining. It may even serve to take readers back to Sophocles.