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Paphnutius or The Conversion of the Harlot Thaïs is a play originally written in Latin by Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (935-1002). It concerns the relationship between Saint Thaïs once a courtesan of Alexandria in Roman Egypt and Paphnutius the Ascetic the hermit who offered her conversion to Christianity. The characters of the play lived during the 4th century. Much later in Europe beginning in the early middle ages the story of St.