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Historical person
1324 BCE–1280 BCE
Seti I was a pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty and father of Ramesses II. He restored Egyptian authority in parts of Syria and Palestine, fought the Hittites and sponsored major monuments including his temple at Abydos.
In Christian Jacq’s Ramses: The Son of Light, Ramesses grows up in the shadow of Seti I, learning the obligations of kingship while rivalries inside and beyond the court test his claim to future power. Christian Jacq’s Ramses: The Temple of a Million Years places Seti I within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, religion, belief and institutional authority, and political ambition and government. Other novels featuring Seti I include Christian Jacq’s Ramses: Under the Western Acacia.
Historical context
Series
The Ramses series follows Ramesses II from youth and accession through war, diplomacy, temple building, family conflict and old age. The books present the Nineteenth Dynasty as a world of divine kingship, palace rivalry, Hittite confrontation and monumental ambition. The sequence is biographical in shape, using the long…
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