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“I knocked Kercyon out when I found him taking a shit at dawn among the cabbages”
τὸν Κερκυόνα θ᾿ ἕωθεν ἀποπατοῦντ᾿ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ τοῖς λαχάνοις εὑρὼν ἀπέπνιξα. #Cratinus
τὸν Κερκυόνα θ᾿ ἕωθεν ἀποπατοῦντ᾿ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ τοῖς λαχάνοις εὑρὼν ἀπέπνιξα. #Cratinus
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Jesus Christ before me, Iao Sabaoth Adonai behind me: A Prayer for Good Luck and Protection
Guest post by Ágnes Mihálykó (read her bio here). What would you ask from God in a morning prayer? Success for your business? No fights with your husband/wife/children/boss? Or, quite simply having…
Struggling to Provide
In early December, one year in the seventh century, a man called Damianos from the Fayum asked for a cash loan and was given it from another man, Shenoute. Short loan contracts such as this one are…
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Spooky stories from ancient Assyria
Assyria: Land of Demons
By Benjamin Welton There is a story (most likely untrue) that begins with a team of European archaeologists overseeing a dig in northern Iraq. They are somewhere near Mosul, the current stronghold of ...
An Army Family at a Time of Revolt
In 297 CE, the usurper Lucius Domitius Domitianus led a revolt against the emperor Diocletian, proclaiming himself emperor and ruling Egypt for almost a year. From this same time survives an archiv…
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A Confirmed Bachelor Wishes to Marry
Guest post by Jelle Bruning (read his bio here) “My first words to you are those of a tradition on the authority the Prophet—God bless him and grant him peace—, which relates that …” With these qui…
A Coptic Mother-in-Law’s Curse
*Guest post by Ágnes Mihálykó (read her bio here) Adam and Eve were the luckiest couple in the world: neither of them had a mother-in-law! Many of us would heartily agree with this joke – not just …
Pompeius Catussa set up a touching epitaph: "You, who are reading this, go and bathe in the Baths of Apollo, just as I used to do with my wife. I wish I still could."
His wife Blandinia Martiola, liv... View More
His wife Blandinia Martiola, liv... View More
On A Document Signed by Cleopatra
On 23 February 33 BCE, the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, issued a royal ordinance granting financial privileges to a Roman absentee landlord. These privileges include tax exemptions and protection…
Mob Rule and Personal Relations in an Egyptian Village
One night, an angry mob marched across the Egyptian village Deir el-Medina with the intention of beating up a woman. The woman’s crime? She had been sleeping with a married man for the past eight m…
