Physical Descriptions, Biometrics, and Eikonographia in Graeco-Roman Papyri from Egypt

Physical Descriptions, Biometrics, and Eikonographia in Graeco-Roman Papyri from EgyptIn modern life, an identity document bearing a photograph is an indispensable feature. Yet this connection between physical appearance and legal identity is not as modern as it may seem. In Graeco Roman Egypt, Greek texts also bore lexical photographs: standardised, detailed physical descriptions (eikones) of individuals including height, skin colour, hair texture, the shape of the nose and face, and other identifiers like body modifications and

pairing traditional notions of medicine with less conventional ideas of “healthy” social and political environments

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Eis des Meeres" verfügbar

from rifles to atomic bombs

which in many countries have been established to ensure enough women are represented in legislative bodies

which is frequently used as a linguistic category

God is in all of it

this book is an invitation to join Jesus and the disciples in walking the road that leads to Jerusalem

Such recent projects invert or “queer” the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of literature

and to feel at home in our own land

ist es erforderlich

historical description and legal assessment

Starting with his rural upbringing in Mavambe