This volume six of the Carlsberg Papyri series contains the edition
of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple
library, dating to the period around 100 AD. The Petese Stories is
a compilation of seventy stories about the virtues and vices of
women. The numerous stories were compiled on the orders of the
prophet Petese of Heliopolis that they may serve as a literary
testament by which he would be remembered. Petese was, according to
literary tradition, Plato's Egyptian instructor in astrology. The
composition seems to have been modeled on the fundamental Myth of
the Sun's Eye. The overall structural pattern of the text is very
similar to the Arabian Nights; a frame story forms the introduction
as well as the fabric into which the long series of shorter tales
are woven. Among the stories preserved in the new manuscript one is
particularly remarkable in that it is known from a translation by
Herodotus, the so-called Pheros Story.
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