IKHNATON

by James Henry Breasted What follows is a delightful specimen of a kind of historical writing--imaginative, personal, not a little romantic--that, for better and worse, is now little practiced or valued by professional historians. Breasted presents the religious reformer-pharaoh as "the earliest known idealist," "the earliest monotheist," and "the world's first individual." The article was written for the first (1929) printing of the Fourteenth Edition and was based on a chapter in Breasted's A History of Egypt (1905). Ikhnaton