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Le numéro 161 de ὁ λύχνος (mars 2022) est comme toujours riche d’articles de grande qualité. L’article neuf parle du mariage par rapt : [Résumé : Dans cet article, il est question d’étudier un point crucial dans l’histoire de l’humanité, le rapt des jeunes filles pour en faire des épouses, en particulier sur deux continents, Afrique et Europe. Notre objectif est …

Brice C. Jones nous parle sur son blog du papyrus P.Tebt. 2.304 qui nous raconte l’agression subie par  Pakebkis et son frère Onnophris en Egypte au 2ème siècle, à Tebtunis. Like today, people in the ancient world dealt with all sorts of crime, violence, rape, murder, theft, and so on. In many cases, crimes in the ancient world were never …

One of the remarkable things that the poet expressed in this text – stressing it as noteworthy, it would seem – was that she never had to endure any physical abuse (lines 5-6): non gravibus vinc(u)lis unquam consueta teneri verbera nec niveo corpore saeva pati unaccustomed ever to be restrained by heavy harnesses or to endure savage beatings with my …

P.Oxy. 6.903 is a fourth century papyrus that was discovered in 1897 in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. It is complete and generally well-preserved (image below). The papyrus is an affidavit comprised of a complaint from a Christian woman against her husband, who is charged with verbally and physically abusing her, their slaves, and foster children. Apparently, the husband …