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Anita Arnon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1371 total appearances

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Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

So it's a perspective thing.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

So it's actually, it's made for purpose.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

So that if you're an ant-like human, you'll see a... That's really interesting.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

I never thought of that.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

Willie used the word, apart from lapis lazuli, he used the word Darbar to describe that opening scene of, you know, this splendor and this wealth.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

And we should explain that the Darbar is, Aidan, it's a show, isn't it?

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

It's a show of gifts.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

It's a show of abasance, you know, that people are coming and they're bowing to the most powerful.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

And it's when you put all your glitz and glamour on full display.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

That's right, isn't it?

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

To bend the knee, as it were.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

I mean, you know, this all has a utopian quality to it.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

Now, is that possibly because this is such a personal revolution?

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

I mean, you know, it is obviously one man's vision.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

But let me ask you the question that you're never going to be asked in your lectures.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

Is it because Akhenaten had daddy issues?

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

Because why?

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

Why?

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

Do we understand why he suddenly woke up this morning and said, my father, my father's father, my father's father's father, and everyone else has got it all wrong.

Empire: World History
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3)

But I know the true way.