Isadora : A Historical Greek Pharaonic Immortal Love Story

Author " Salah El Din Mohssein " : I personally visited her tomb - archaeological, historical - in 1994

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Isadora: An Immortal Greco-Pharaonic Love Story

Martyr of Love  Isadora 

* The events of this story took place in ancient Egypt during Greek rule in the central Upper Egypt region, Minya, 130 BC

Isadora is a beautiful Egyptian girl, aged 18 years, who lived in Egypt in the second century BC, in the era of Emperor Hadrian, and she was the daughter of a Greek family who lived in Egypt in the city of Antinopolis (Sheikh Ubadah now), and her father was the ruler of the now known region of Minya Governorate, and his palace was Al Kabeer is located in the city of Antinopolis, overlooking the Nile.

The beautiful girl fell in love with the Egyptian officer (Habi) who lived on the western side of the Nile in the city of Khomno (now Al-Ashmonin), and he was one of the guard forces in the city, and he was a normal person from the Egyptian common people and he was not from the top of the people, there is no Any face of comparison between them in terms of level, and despite that, her love for him to meet her lover.

Isadora went out from her city across the river to attend one of the celebrations, and there she met the officer (Habi), and she became attached to him and was fascinated by her, and the two kept meeting every day and every night, so she went to him by the lake, and he used to come to her near her father’s palace.

After three years of sincere love, her father knew about this, and decided to prevent him, because in his custom his daughter of Greek roots should not be associated with an Egyptian young man, and he ordered the guards to follow her, and to prevent that young man from meeting her. Isadora was sad and decided to commit suicide, and that life without her lover is meaningless. But she decided to see him for the last time, and indeed she was able to mislead her guards, and she went to the same place at the lake and did not tell her lover what she had decided to do, which was suicide and bid him farewell and went, even if she reached the middle of the river, she threw herself into the arms of the Nile.

Her father deeply regretted what he did to his daughter, so he built a beautiful tomb for her in the form of a house, and wrote on the walls of the cemetery two poems in the lament of Isadora in Greek, while her lover was sincere and loyal, so he went every night and lit a candle inside her tomb so that her soul would not remain alone 

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