Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade Review"An extremely important study that will fundamentally change how we think about violence in Egypt and elsewhere in the Roman Empire-in fact, the way we conceive Roman rule in the provinces altogether." * Noel Lenski, University of Colorado *
"A substantial contribution to the field of papyrology,
Violence in Roman Egypt contributes an interesting analysis of the only extant documentation of this kind in antiquity, which has never before been studied from this perspective." * Sofia Torallas Tovar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
