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Violence in Roman Egypt : A Study in Legal Interpretation.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empire and After SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208214
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence in Roman EgyptDDC classification:
  • 296.09/014
LOC classification:
  • KL3085 -- .B79 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Violence in Roman Egypt -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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. Fission and Fusion -- Conclusion: Nomos and Its Narratives -- Appendix A: The Papyrus on the Page -- Appendix B: Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence -- List of Papyri in Checklist Order -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Drawing on over a hundred papyrus petitions, one of the only sources of personal narrative from the Roman world, Ari Z. Bryen investigates how people living in Roman Egypt negotiated their relationships to local communities and the Empire through legal stories.
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Cover -- Violence in Roman Egypt -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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. Fission and Fusion -- Conclusion: Nomos and Its Narratives -- Appendix A: The Papyrus on the Page -- Appendix B: Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence -- List of Papyri in Checklist Order -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Drawing on over a hundred papyrus petitions, one of the only sources of personal narrative from the Roman world, Ari Z. Bryen investigates how people living in Roman Egypt negotiated their relationships to local communities and the Empire through legal stories.

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