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Sesonchosis is a fragmentary ancient Greek prose narrative preserved on a single papyrus, P.Oxy. 2466, published in 1961 and housed at the University of Oxford. The 45-line fragment depicts a scene in which a woman comforts and erotically engages a distressed king named Sesonchosis through anointing, kissing, and speech before the text breaks off. The narrative begins and ends abruptly, and its relation to a larger work is unknown. The fragment exemplifies the novelistic adaptation of heroic legend, repurposing Sesonchosis—a Greek romanticization of the Egyptian pharaohs Senwosret or Psamtik I—from a traditional figure of conquest into a protagonist of intimate, popular romance, illustrating a key thematic development in ancient Greek fiction.
Erotic Narrative Anonymous Sesonchosis (Fragment A) in Greek in PDF
Erotic Narrative Anonymous Sesonchosis (Fragment A) in Greek in MD