>I do no where you are getting your information but I think your
understanding of
>the cult of the Aten is badly distorted. Ikhenaton worshipped the Sun and
>everyone else worshipped him. No real montheism. Also he lived c.
1100(?)BC
>more or less about or slightly after Troy. Quite a bad King who failed
to respond to
>major foregn challenges. Aten cult pretty much died with him.
Certainly no signs
>that it survived him in Egypt since the people did not abandon the old
Major gods
>or local cults. He would have been about the time or slighly after
Maekenian
>period in Greece. Very unlikely that there was any Atenist influence
in Greece at
>all. Unless one identifies ATen with Apollo, no major solar cult in
Greece at all.


Akhenaten lived around 1350 BC