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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Empire and after.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.