Ozymandias is the Greek name for Ramses II of Egypt, a pharaoh who reigned in the 13th century bce. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1818 poem “Ozymandias” was inspired by a bust of Ramses that had been removed from the Ramesseum, the pharaoh’s funerary temple in Thebes, Egypt. The poem offers an ironic and enduring commentary on the fleeting nature of power.
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