<P> The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of one of a number of hymn - poems written to the sun - disk deity Aten . Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is attributed to the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with Atenism . </P> <P> The hymn - poem provides a glimpse of the religious artistry of the Amarna period expressed in multiple forms encompassing literature, new temples, and in the building of a whole new city at the site of present - day Amarna as the capital of Egypt . Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson said that "It has been called' one of the most significant and splendid pieces of poetry to survive from the pre-Homeric world ."' Egyptologist John Darnell asserts that the hymn was sung . </P>

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