. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. ptian arms, art andliterature. He himself was avaliant warrior and are several variants of hisname; Ramessu is the exacthieroglyph ical form; but he wasalso called Ses, Sestesu, Setcsu,and Sethoris; and Herodotusand other Greek writersnamed him Sesostris. Heerected many monumentsand built many temples, some of which remain the mightiestexamples of Egyptian architecture. Rameses reigned sixty-seven years ; at the age of twelvehe sat beside his father on the throne; and it was while stilla young man t
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident. ptian arms, art andliterature. He himself was avaliant warrior and are several variants of hisname; Ramessu is the exacthieroglyph ical form; but he wasalso called Ses, Sestesu, Setcsu,and Sethoris; and Herodotusand other Greek writersnamed him Sesostris. Heerected many monumentsand built many temples, some of which remain the mightiestexamples of Egyptian architecture. Rameses reigned sixty-seven years ; at the age of twelvehe sat beside his father on the throne; and it was while stilla young man that he headed the famous campaign against theHittites in northern Syria, which inspired the court poet,Pentaur, to write the poem in which the heroic exploits ofthe king are described. It was near Kadesh, on the Orontes,that Rameses approved his courage, rescuing the vanguardof his army from an ambush prepared by the enemy, andachieving a great victory over them. The bravery and ability of this monarch were equalledonly by his vanity. He caused Pentaurs poem to be inscribed4. 50 IvITERATURB OF ALI, NATIONS. on the walls of numerous temples, four of which still survive,together with a copy on papyrus. Obelisks attest his mightydeeds, and his face and form are reproduced in countlessstatues, one of which, found in a shattered condition at Zoanor Tanis, near Tel-el-Kebir, was the largest colossus known,measuring ninety-two feet in height, without the obelisk now in the Central Park of New York wasoriginally designed as a memorial of his predecessor, ThothmesIII., but was appropriated and inscribed by Rameses. AtAbu-Simbel, in Nubia, he caused to be hewn out of the solidrock a magnificent temple, with a fagade lOO feet in breadthand height, in the steep front of the precipice. Guardingthe entrance are four colossal figures of Rameses, enthroned,each sixty-six feet in height; in the first chamber the wallsare sculptured with his deeds; while the inner sanctuary con-tain
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