Ramesses

Ramesses

Ramesses (also commonly spelled "Ramses" pronEng|ˈræmsiːz or "Rameses" IPA|/ˈræməsiːz/) is the name conventionally given in English transliteration to eleven Egyptian pharaohs of the later New Kingdom period. The name essentially translates as "Born of the sun-god Ra".

:18th Dynasty
*Ramesses:19th Dynasty
*Ramesses I: founder of the 19th Dynasty
*Ramesses II ("the Great"):20th Dynasty
*Ramesses III: adversary of the Sea Peoples
*Ramesses IV
*Ramesses V
*Ramesses VI
*Ramesses VII
*Ramesses VIII
*Ramesses IX
*Ramesses X
*Ramesses XI: last ruler of the Egyptian New Kingdom

Other:

*Ramesses or Pi-Ramesses, the name of the reconstructed city of Avaris, renamed after the Ramesses pharaohs
*The fictional "Ramses XIII," protagonist of the 1895 historical novel "Pharaoh" by Bolesław Prus
* Ramesses, the eponimous protagonist's father in "Thamos, König in Ägypten" ("Thamos, King of Egypt", or "King Thamos", in English), a play by Tobias Philipp, for which Mozart wrote incidental music
*Ramesses (band), a Sludge/Doom Metal band in England, formed by ex-Electric Wizard members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening
*Ramses Emerson, a fictional character in the "Amelia Peabody" book series by U.S. author Elizabeth Peters
*"Ramses the Damned", an alternate title of the novel "The Mummy" by Anne Rice
*Rameses, the mascot for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*"Ramses", a summon creature in the Gameboy Advance game Golden Sun
*Ramses, a brand of condoms manufactured by Durex


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