2. Key points I will cover
• What is known about your chosen person’s life?
– What are the key biographical facts: dates of birth etc.
– What are the significant sources that tell us about this
person (tomb, stele, inscriptions?).
• How reliable are these sources and what is not certain or
unknown?
• How do these sources represent this person: as a success, a
fair ruler or a tyrant, as an oddity, as a person with a mixed
record?
– Are there conflicting representations? If so, which is more
accurate and why
