The Instructions of a Menimope

The instructions of a Menimope dates from the fall of the New Kingdom, sometime around 1100 BCE. All the quotes in this episode come from an anthology called The Literature of Ancient Egypt by William Kelly Simpson and published by Yale University Press. I'm going to read about a page and a half of the 17 pages that make up the main narrative of the instructions of a menimope. By the end of it you'll have a good general idea of what Wisdom Literature is and how it works.