Akhenaten

I'm reading a novel set in the reign of Akhenaten [link] and thought I'd write a quick poem inspired by his story. I was fascinated with all ancient history when I was a child but Egypt in particular and Akhenaten in the particularly particular.

This poem namechecks his religious reforms and how he's depicted in portraits as waif-like rather than the traditional perfectly masculine of pharaohs before and after. Some have speculated that Akhenaten had a genetic defect and chose to portray this rather than hide it. He is also credited as establishing monotheism. Both are disputed by historians but make for a much better story.

And yeah, later Egyptians did some history revisionism, removing his name from records with chisels. He was mentioned (but not by name) in one of my earliest deviations, "non nominandum" [link]