โ Cooney, Kara
๐ Fiction
๐
2014,2015
๐ Crown/Archetype
๐ en-ca
โ 676 KB
๐ 1 views
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsuts Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
โ Scribed by Kara Cooney
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2014,2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 668 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
Hatshepsut--the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty--was born into a privileged position of the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of pharaoh in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. Just as women today face obstacles from a society that equates authority...
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