Abstract
This chapter aims to explore the scarcity of love letters among the Greek letters written on papyrus. In the first part, Hatzilambrou briefly presents the extant specimens of Greek love correspondence in post-pharaonic Egypt, while also commenting on points in them that are relevant to her argument. In the second part, she firstly justifies her suggestion that the small number of papyrus love letters appears puzzling, when compared to the emphasis placed on love and sexual desire in other texts of the same period, e.g. in the magical papyri and, secondly, she argues that the reason for the observed “asexuality” in the corpus of the Greek papyrus letters lies in a range of factors, namely the literacy issue, the defective postal system, the moral climate and the deliberate destruction of love letters, which have nothing to do with the sexuality of the Greek speaking inhabitants of post-pharaonic Egypt.