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Ramesses II - inaccuracy?

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  Posted by ourkidloki (U13800716) on Friday, 4th December 2009

  I have just started watching Lost City of the Ancients - Vanished Capital of the Pharoah on iplayer and I'm not sure I want to go on.
  In the first 5 minutes it states that Ramesses II was born a commoner and I'm sure from my modest secondary school education that he was the son of Seti I.
  I hate watching such grossly inaccurate history documentaries - they always leave you more mis-informed than you were to start with.
  If such a big budget documentary can get wrong, what a 10 year old can find out in 2 minutes on Wikipedia, where is the hope for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ?
  
  

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  Posted by JonWickerMan2 (U13225789) on Saturday, 5th December 2009

  Well I'm sure by now you have confirmed on the net that you are correct. Ramesses II was indeed a son of Seti I, and he in turn was the only known son of Ramesses I.
  It is known that under Amenhotep III a member of a family of Ramesses occupied the position of Major-domo and or General in the military.
  So, it is possible that Ramesses II was decended from this Egyptian common stock.
  
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  Posted by Mutatis_Mutandis (U8620894) on Saturday, 12th December 2009

  It isn't that straightforward. The reign of the predecessors of Ramses II was short: His father 11 years (perhaps more), his grandfather only a year and a half. It is assumed that Ramses II became pharaoh in his twenties -- so that he was not born as a prince. He must have been a young boy when Horemheb appointed his grandfather to become his successor on the throne.
  
  Whether "born as a commoner" is a fair description is something else: He was born as the grandson of the second most powerful man in the country, as Ramses I had been Horemheb's vizier.
  
  

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