A Boy's Letter by Theon (Ft. Laura Nasrallah)
A Boy's Letter by Theon (Ft. Laura Nasrallah)

A Boy’s Letter

Theon & Laura Nasrallah * Track #102 On Early Christianity: The Letters of Paul

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A Boy's Letter by Theon (Ft. Laura Nasrallah)

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This letter was written on papyrus paper in Greek either in the second or third century CE. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus and is now kept in the Bodleian Library. It is a letter about a young man’s demands on his father.

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A Boy’s Letter Annotated

‘Theon to his father Theon, greeting. It was a fine thing of you not to take me with you to the city! If you won’t take me with you to Alexandria I won’t take your hand nor ever greet you again. That is what will happen if you won’t take me. Mother said to Archelaus, “It quite upsets him to be left behind (?).” It was good of you to send me presents…on the 12th, the day you sailed. Send me a lyre, I implore you. If you don’t, I won’t eat, I won’t drink: there now!'

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