12. On use of "Vizier" for Pharaonic Officials

12. It seems like a good term to use for all cases of such imperial courts, including India, China, and Japan, as well as the Middle Eastern and later monotheistic imperial cultures of the last three thousand years. For some cases of major court reformers in China, all of whom experienced enormous rivalry and conflict, see Greg Anderson, “To Change China: A Tale of Three Reformers,” Asia Pacific Perspectives 1 [2001]: 1–18. Within this category, my impression is that Amenhotep sa-Hapu stands out as one of the most extraordinary, and certainly within Egyptian history. I know of no European case that compares, with the possible exception of Gerbert, the peasant boy who became Pope Sylvester II in 999 and died in exile from Rome – and who aroused such resentment that, contrary to sa-Hapu’s deification, Gerbert became a symbol of pact with the devil in order to acquire power E. M. Butler, The Myth of the Magus (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1948), 94-97.