... was the Greek name for Ramses II (often spelt Rameses or Ramesses) – probably the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful of all the Egyptian pharaohs. He lived in the 13th century BC.
Shelley's poem explores the fate of history and the ravages of time: even the greatest men and the most powerful empires are transient, their legacies fated to decay into oblivion.
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