Violence in Roman Egypt : a study in legal interpretation /

If ancient historians have frequently written about non-elite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, the author counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials...

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Main Author: Bryen, Ari Z.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Series:Empire and after.
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505 0 0 |g Introduction.  |t The presentation of the self in everyday life --  |g Part I.  |t The texture of the problem.  |g Chapter 1.  |t Ptolemaios complains ;  |g Chapter 2.  |t Violent Egypt ;  |g Chapter 3.  |t Violence, modern and ancient --  |g Part II.  |t From the language of pain to the language of law.  |g Chapter 4.  |t Narrating injury ;  |g Chapter 5.  |t The work of law ;  |g Chapter 6.  |t Fission and fusion --  |g Conclusion.  |t Nomos and its narratives --  |g Appendix A.  |t The papyrus on the page --  |g Appendix B.  |t Translations of petitions concerning violence --  |t List of papyri in checklist order. 
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650 0 |a Violence  |z Egypt  |x History  |y To 1500. 
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