Dio, a dancer rescued from Crete, is brought to Egypt as a gift for Akhnaton, the king who has abandoned Amon for the one god of the sun and built a new capital at Akhetaton. Through her the novel shows the visionary pharaoh, his court and the young Tutankhaton, and the mounting resistance of priests and people to his reforms.
A philosophical historical novel continuing Dio’s story from The Birth of the Gods, by a leading Russian Symbolist. Download the free EPUB.