Zapletniuk O. The royal power in Egypt during the reign of Akhenaten.

Dissertation is devoted to the study of royal power during the reign of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) (1349 - 1333 years B.C.), the Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. Amarna period was marked by the unprecedented scale of construction activity, motivated by new religious reform. Pharaoh Akhenaten abandoned traditional Egyptian polytheism and introduced worship centered on the sun god Aten. It led to a new vision of pharaoh's authority, who was declared the only priest of Aten, the mediator between God and men. Akhenaten's monotheism did not accept old gods, who stopped being worshipped. The author substantiated the hypothesis about the reasons for the reform of the pharaoh Akhenaten, elucidated features of the royal ideology and analyzed a Pharaoh's role in the cult of the solar disk.