Violence in Roman Egypt : : A Study in Legal Interpretation / / Ari Z. Bryen.
What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless?If ancient historians have...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empire and After
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 5 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life
- Part I. The Texture of the Problem
- Chapter 1. Ptolemaios Complains
- Chapter 2. Violent Egypt
- Chapter 3. Violence, Modern and Ancient
- Part II. From the Language of Pain to the Language of Law
- Chapter 4. Narrating Injury
- Chapter 5. The Work of Law
- Chapter 6. Fusion and Fission
- Conclusion. Nomos and Its Narratives
- Appendix A : The Papyrus on the Page
- Appendix B:Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence
- Papyri in Checklist Order
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments