Scene 1

Old Paneb Imhotep, geometryst, is sitted in a limestone, on the border of Nile River, with his pupils, trying to fish some perch of the nile to dinner that night. Student 1 asks Imhotep:
- Mater Imhotep, have you ever been abroad Egypt?
- In a matter of fact, yes, young Menés! A long long time ago, i went to a place where other gods were worshipped and other people, very different from us, in body and beliefs, lived their lives trying to satisfy the vanities of strange gods! The lives of people were played by gods as a little game, were death, many times was the first prize!
- Really Master Imhotep, could you tell us more? asked stud 1.
- Well, it seems to be a very long story but i´ll try to tell you one story of my journeys into the Greek lands.
But please, fill up my cup of dactile-wine, cause my throat is deserticaly dry!

So, pupils sitted around Paneb, who took place to the middle of the circle to degustate the great flavor of that delicious egyptian invent, and let words come to his tongue.

Scene 2

Paneb talks:
- Many years ago, i was asked by the Great Ramsseses, to go to the Acropolis of Athens, to negotiate a buy of olive oil amphoras. So, i took a fast boat and landed the Marathon plan where i should take a way to the greeks´s capital. But i´ve know, from anciennts legends, that this way was always very dangerous and difficult to cross. The first one was really terrible: at the first tavern i stopped to wet my gorge, they served me a wine that even could kill a Cyclop! And also charged me almost what we pay for a good copper sword!

all students laughed.

- So, i decided to continue my journey, and contracted a guideman, and some carriers, to bring to the greek´s King, the valuous presents our Great Pharaoh Ramesses, sent to him! We egyptians are worldly famous by our accuracy and art of producing fabulous objects like bow and quiver of arrows, a pair of winged sandals, bronze shields and many other things the whole worls wished and like to apoderate.
The way was very hard, almost no water or rivers to refresh all the road, and so many mountains in the way, it looked most we were lost in a maze... I think greeks thought the same way, cause one of the carriers told us, there was an island were a labyrinth was built to keep a so-called monster, the Minotaurus, half man-half ox. Our Apis priests would love to meet this creature! Almost in the middle of this maze, we found an image of a god, made of gold, thrown to the road margin, so i took and decided to asks the kings artisans to restaurate.
So, the next village we entered there was a terrrible fight: two women were fighting for a skein of wool of a lamb. One of them have the haircut made as it was serpents rising from her head, people shout to her, "Go Medusa, Go! Break her nose!", she screamed and attacked the other one, who was older, stronger, and tattooed with a serpent with seven heads, had a so strong smell of methan, that if we were carrying our burning torch, sure all the village had exploded to death!

Pupils laughed again.

- When we were aproximating the capital, i took a sit to make a cigar, so i took my sharpened stick, the coil of rope tobacco, and a piece of straw. Took another cup of wine, from our amphora of wine, and then marched with our staff to meet the Acropolis.

Student 1 asks:
- So you know the king of the greeks?
Paneb answers:

- Not in fact, i was received by the prime-counsellor and made the Treat of Commerce. The king wasn´t at the Acropolis cause he had received a prophecy from the Oracle of Dodona, he must go to the columns of hercules to find a symbol of the power of this govern: a large club, labelled "Property of Hercules".


Paneb´s pole of fishs shakes and when we takes it out of water, a very big nile perch comes out as all púpils scream of joy!

The End