La lingua delle petizioni nell'Egitto romano Evoluzione di lessico, formule e procedure dal 30 a.C. al 300 d.C.

This book investigates the linguistic and formal aspects of more than a thousand requests for justice and protection preserved in Egyptian papyri of the Roman Principate, mainly written in Greek. For many centuries in Egypt, from the Ptolemaic period to the late Roman Empire, petitions addressed to...

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Main Author: Mascellari, Roberto
Format: eBook
Language:Italian
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2021
Series:Edizioni dell'Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli»
Subjects:
Law
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Collection: Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book investigates the linguistic and formal aspects of more than a thousand requests for justice and protection preserved in Egyptian papyri of the Roman Principate, mainly written in Greek. For many centuries in Egypt, from the Ptolemaic period to the late Roman Empire, petitions addressed to the judicial authorities shared the same textual structure and made use of recurring lexical formulas. Such uniformity was the result of the adherence by scribes and legal advisers to repertoires that had wide circulation. This study evaluates the correspondence between the formulas of the petitions and legislation, normative conventions, and spoken and literary language, and how these factors interacted with each other over the centuries.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (1420 p.)
ISBN:9788855184472
978-88-5518-446-5
9788855184465
9788855184458