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Informationen zum Autor Ari Z. Bryen teaches history at West Virginia University. Klappentext Ari Z. Bryen teaches history at West Virginia University. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
List 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
