Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History. by Velikovsky, Immanuel - 1960.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday & Company, 1960.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black cloth with small vignette in gilt, gilt spine text; rubbed at the spine ends, one small gouge to the bottom edge; owner's name and date on the blank page preceding the half-title page; a Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Facsimile signature shown on endpapers. Description: Illustrated in black and white.. Velikovsky here investigates the legend of Oedipus, and identifies the scene and personages of that Greek legend with the life patterns of the family of the Egyptian King Akhnaton. The legend of the Oedipus cycle, in which Dr Velikovsky finds a parallel to the House of Akhnaton, involves the family of Oedipus, King of Thebes, -- his blinding and exile, his curse on his sons who subsequently slew each other at the gates of Thebes, and the courage of his daughter, Antigone, who entombed her fallen brother despite contrary official decree and was herself immured in a pit-tomb as punishment. With well-documented material, Dr Velikovsky uncovers and examines the parallels between the myth and the fact; he solves a number of mysteries concerning the tombs in the Valley of Kings, and he brings vividly to life all the figures of both ancient tragedies.