Did pharaoh rames the great hate to have images of himself?

Answer 1

Quite the oposite, he had more statues of himself than any other pharaoh including four giant statues flanking the rock temple at Abu Simbal. As tombs could not be made secure he beleived lots of images of himself garanteed his imortality. In a way he was not wrong!

I met a traveler from an antique land

Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bish Shelley