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Historical person
1174 BCE–1156 BCE
Pentawer was an Egyptian prince involved in the harem conspiracy against Ramesses III. Judicial records indicate that the plot sought to place him on the throne; he was condemned and apparently compelled to take his own life.
In Pauline Gedge’s House of Dreams, Thu becomes entangled with Queen Tiye and Prince Pentawer in the conspiracy to remove Ramesses and change the succession. Pauline Gedge’s House of Illusions places Pentawer within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and political ambition and government.
Series
Thu’s Houses follows an ambitious healer from the village of Aswat into the court of Ramesses III and then into the consequences of the Harem Conspiracy. House of Dreams charts Thu’s education, her entry into the royal household and her growing involvement with officials who intend to alter…
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