Amenemope

1 standalone book

Amenemope, the son of Kanakht, is the ostensible author of the Instruction of Amenemope, an Egyptian wisdom text written in the Ramesside Period. He is portrayed as a scribe and sage who lived during the 20th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and resided at Akhmim in Upper Egypt. His discourses take the traditional form of a father's instructions to his son on how to live a good and moral life, organized into 30 numbered chapters.