Violence in Roman Egypt : a study in legal interpretation /
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Language: English
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2013.
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Empire and after.
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Call Number: KL3085 .B79 2013
Table of 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