Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Ancient mentors and tutors

Ancient kings were wont to use wise men, or sages, to tutor their children and to educate them in a wide sense. Woman pharaoh Hatshepsut, in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt, had called in the great Senenmut (or Senmut) as steward and tutor of her daughter,Neferure. Senenmut had the best of teaching credentials. Was he not the wise king Solomon of Israel? See e.g. my article: "Solomon and Sheba" https://www.academia.edu/3660164/Solomon_and_Sheba Filling a role in Egypt almost identical to that of Senenmut was the celebrated seer, Amenhotep son of Hapu. See e.g. my article: "Amenhotep son of Hapu had rôle like Senenmut. Part One: So alike despite being about a century apart" https://www.academia.edu/40182006/Amenhotep_son_of_Hapu_had_r%C3%B4le_like_Senenmut_Part_One_So_alike_despite_being_about_a_century_apart Who was this Amenhotep son of Hapu? I have tentatively connected him to the long-lived Horemheb: "Amenhotep son of Hapu had rôle like Senenmut. Part Two: Amenhotep also compares well with Horemheb" https://www.academia.edu/40182399/Amenhotep_son_of_Hapu_had_r%C3%B4le_like_Senenmut_Part_Two_Amenhotep_also_compares_well_with_Horemheb and again: https://www.academia.edu/40199570/Amenhotep_son_of_Hapu_had_r%C3%B4le_like_Senenmut_Part_Three_Strengthening_the_connection_with_Horemheb Another famous seer, who has exerted a vast influence upon antiquity over a long range of time, was Ahikar (or Achior), nephew of Tobit of Naphtalian Israel. Ahikar I have identified with the similarly well-known seer of Babylon, Esagil-kini-ubba. Ahikar famously tutored Nadin (or Nadab), or Ashur-nadin-shumi, the eldest son of Sennacherib, the ill-fated "Holofernes" of the Book of Judith, who betrayed his so-called "uncle", Ahikar (Tobit 14:10). See e.g. my article: ""Nadin" (Nadab) of Tobit is the "Holofernes" of Judith" https://www.academia.edu/36576110/_Nadin_Nadab_of_Tobit_is_the_Holofernes_of_Judith This situation, Ahikar tutoring a powerful king's militaristic son, has such likenesses to Aristotle's supposed tutoring of the militaristic Alexander the Great, son of King Philip, that I must wonder if the Greeks had borrowed the well-known earlier story and applied it to their hero, Alexander. The life of the latter does not give evidence that he had once been tutored by a mind like Aristotle's.

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