Ancient Egyptian scribes enjoyed writing romantic and sexual texts. They explored themes of love, longing, lust and courtship from a variety of perspectives – male and female. Exploring emotions and sensations, they created a lively corpus of literature with many evocative passages. In this mini episode we explore three more poems of the Love genre.

All is Full of Love

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Translations by John L. Foster, Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology (Amazon)

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