Dr. Campbell Price
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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And when he gets the chance, when his father eventually dies, he really goes for it on quite a scale.
No, exactly.
Yes, exactly.
So he's, to himself, he's blue-blooded, but the family...
They're fairly new kids on the block, given the previous dynasty.
The 18th dynasty is a long stretch of very interesting characters.
Oh, well, that's very difficult.
Okay, so you get some heavy hitters early on.
So you have essentially the War of Liberation against the Hyksos, these northerners who have ruled Egypt and who need to be expelled.
And that happens, that really heralds the beginning of the 18th dynasty, about 1500 and something.
BCE and that's Achmosy Achmosy we're now calling him the second he used to be called Achmosy the first but because we've discovered an earlier Achmosy we're calling him Achmosy the second then he initiates
a line of not necessarily blood relations because we get Amenhotep I, who's a son of Ahmose, but then we get Thutmose I. So he's a real warrior king and he not only repels foreign invasions, he doesn't just expel people like Ahmose I, but he actively seeks to expand that field of influence, that sphere of influence of Egypt.
And I think it's that that sets the precedent
for Rameses to look back on.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
In kind of rough terms, if we're thinking about success as artistic quality, and that's very subjective of course,
criterion and how much actual gold there is in the treasury so Thutmose III is an important character he's sometimes called the Napoleon of ancient Egypt expansionist he is working in concert with his aunt his stepmother Hatshepsut the female pharaoh who rules for 20 odd years by his side much is made of the potential rivalry the kind of the cookie cutter impression of the wicked stepmother forget it
The relationship is much more complicated than that.
But setting the precedent for Ramses II...
Thutmose III leaves things in pretty good condition.
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