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Antinisca and Antinesca

First of all, I hope you are having a happy and healthy festive season. It’s been some time since I last updated this blog. Due to work commitments, I found I was unable to research and write my usual long, in-depth posts. Recently, I decided to revive my blog, with a focus on shorter posts…

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri – Women’s Names from Early Christian Letters

To Sophias, my beloved sister; Didyme and the sisters (bid you) rejoice in the Lord… Greet beautiful Bikeutia, (and ask) if she has received the head-band and two cakes from Aionios. And greet everyone – Italia, Theodora. Farewell in the Lord.Quotation from an Oxyrhynchus papyrus The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered in…

Honora

I write, “Honora”, on the sparkling sand!-The envious waves forbid the trace to stay:Honora’s name again adorns the strand!Again the waters bear their prize away!Anna Seward “Onora, Onora,”–her mother is calling,She sits at the lattice and hears the dew fallingDrop after drop from the sycamores ladenWith dew as with blossom, and calls home the maiden,”Night…