Larchivio di Claudius Tiberianus da Karanis (Archiv Fur Papyrusforschung Und Verwandte Gebiete - Beihefte, 26) (Italian Edition)

Claudius Tiberianus represents a typical situation for the possibilities of Greco-Egyptians how to advance socially through the service in the Roman army and then how to obtain therefore the citizenship after having finished with the honesta missio. In the first place we see him as a speculator at the time of the rule of Trajan, later as a veteran: he had socially advanced and operated together with his companion veterans and also with the still serving soldiers in the navy and in the land army. His friends were for him economic and social partners, they had common affairs and common opinions. These documents open a view of the living in the country (Fayum and elsewhere) and in the city of Alexandria, which allow us to reconstruct a lot of private and public relations. Here even the nearly silent world of women informs us about economic and legal items. A very interesting tale concerns the murdering of a slave reported by the mother of the culprit. Another quite actual aspect of those days is represented by relations such as between patroni and their clientes. From a more technical point in the field of papyrological work it should be remembered that the results have been obtained through a continous interrogation of the archaeological background. The undertaken work about the archive of letters from familiy-members and friends of Claudius Tiberianus, soon a speculator, a kind of secret-service man, and later a veteran of the Roman army, gives an inside vision of the social and economic life in 2nd century A.D. Egypt. All the texts show up in the original Greek and Latin version and are accompanied by an Italian translation and an exhausting commentary which meets many aspects of the everyday life in the civil and military society. Indexes are covering all the arguments of the texts in the papyrus as well as in the commentary Frontmatter Indice generale Prefazione Abbreviazioni Bibliografia Tabella dei segni usati nelle trascrizioni dei papiri I. Introduzione II. Testi e traduzioni III. I tempi delle lettere IV. I luoghi delle lettere V. Le famiglie die Tiberianus e Terentianus VI. Gli amici VII. Conclusione Appendice. SB VI 9636 (= P. Cornell I, 64) e l'archivio die Tiberianus Backmatter Review text: "Die stets sorgfältig abgewogenen Urteile von S. tragen das Ihre dazu bei, dem Buch Vorbildcharakter zuzuweisen. Auch aus allgemeinhistorischer Sicht kann die Lektüre daher nur nachdrücklich empfohlen werden."Andrea Jördens in: Gnomon 8/2009 Di Silvia Strassi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [xv]-xlviii) And Indexes. Text In Italian With Greek And Latin Quotations.