Ari Bryen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5629688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ari Bryen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ari |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryen |
| SIGNATURE | BRYEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Politics, Justice, and Reform in Dio's Euboicus
This paper uses a close reading of Dio's Euboicus to reflect on the understandings of law, justice, and politics among Greek intellectuals in the high empire more generally. The Euboicus can be read as a satire concerning urban political autonomy in an empire; these rituals of political autonomy and judgment, Dio argues, were ultimately empty. Accordingly, in the second part of the speech, Dio presents a vision of social reform in which he envisi…
Labeo’ s iniuria
Environment and society in the ancient world
Recent scholarly interest in the environment would not have surprised Pliny the Elder, the great Roman polymath and naturalist. From his perspective, the world of history and human events was tightly linked to inquiry into the natural world. The environment was responsible first and foremost for the material conditions of human societies, but its importance transcended being a package of resources. Landscapes produced thinking about difficult que…
Crimes against the Individual
This chapter addresses two “crimes” against the individual: violation of his public face (iniuria), and violation of his household (stuprum and adulterium). More than mere prohibited offences, these two types of harm came, during the crises of sovereignty of the late Republic and early Principate, to be potent loci for thinking about the ideal citizen, his political relationships, and the nature of the Roman state. Though these categories were li…
Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Procedure
This article uses the evidence of the early Christian martyr acts to argue for the existence of a broader, provincial discourse on the importance of legal procedure in criminal trials in the Roman Empire. By focusing on moments of criminal confrontations, these texts not only attempted to explain and glorify the deaths of martyrs, but also sought to make sense of a process that was designed by the Roman state to be arbitrary and terrifying. In th…
Violence in Roman Egypt
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
Judging Empire
In the middle of the second century CE, the satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. CE 125–180) composed a text known as the Bis Accusatus (“Twice Accused”) in which he describes a day of judgment. It begins with Zeus complaining to Hermes about the onerous nature of running the universe: In the first place, I have to supervise the work of the other gods who have responsibilities under my regime, to make sure they don't slack in their duties. Then I have…
Judging Empire
In the middle of the second century CE, the satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. CE 125–180) composed a text known as the Bis Accusatus (“Twice Accused”) in which he describes a day of judgment. It begins with Zeus complaining to Hermes about the onerous nature of running the universe: In the first place, I have to supervise the work of the other gods who have responsibilities under my regime, to make sure they don't slack in their duties. Then I have…
Judging Empire
In the middle of the second century CE, the satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. CE 125–180) composed a text known as the Bis Accusatus (“Twice Accused”) in which he describes a day of judgment. It begins with Zeus complaining to Hermes about the onerous nature of running the universe: In the first place, I have to supervise the work of the other gods who have responsibilities under my regime, to make sure they don't slack in their duties. Then I have…
Violence in Roman Egypt
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
Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Procedure
This article uses the evidence of the early Christian martyr acts to argue for the existence of a broader, provincial discourse on the importance of legal procedure in criminal trials in the Roman Empire. By focusing on moments of criminal confrontations, these texts not only attempted to explain and glorify the deaths of martyrs, but also sought to make sense of a process that was designed by the Roman state to be arbitrary and terrifying. In th…
Crimes against the Individual
This chapter addresses two “crimes” against the individual: violation of his public face (iniuria), and violation of his household (stuprum and adulterium). More than mere prohibited offences, these two types of harm came, during the crises of sovereignty of the late Republic and early Principate, to be potent loci for thinking about the ideal citizen, his political relationships, and the nature of the Roman state. Though these categories were li…
Environment and society in the ancient world
Recent scholarly interest in the environment would not have surprised Pliny the Elder, the great Roman polymath and naturalist. From his perspective, the world of history and human events was tightly linked to inquiry into the natural world. The environment was responsible first and foremost for the material conditions of human societies, but its importance transcended being a package of resources. Landscapes produced thinking about difficult que…
Labeo’ s iniuria
Politics, Justice, and Reform in Dio's Euboicus
This paper uses a close reading of Dio's Euboicus to reflect on the understandings of law, justice, and politics among Greek intellectuals in the high empire more generally. The Euboicus can be read as a satire concerning urban political autonomy in an empire; these rituals of political autonomy and judgment, Dio argues, were ultimately empty. Accordingly, in the second part of the speech, Dio presents a vision of social reform in which he envisi…
Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)