Unit:
Department of PhilologyLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Dissertation committee:
Αμφιλόχιος Παπαθωμάς, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Μαριάννα Θωμά, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Παναγιώτα Καρπούζου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Αικατερίνη Κορολή, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Βασίλειος Λεντάκης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Βασίλειος Βερτουδάκης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Ροζαλία Χατζηλάμπρου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Εθνικό & Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Original Title:
Διαφθορά αξιωματούχων, κατάχρηση αξιώματος & παράβαση καθήκοντος στην Πτολεμαϊκή Αίγυπτο
Translated title:
Corruption of officials, abuse of office & violation of duty in Ptolemaic Egypt
Summary:
The topic of this PhD thesis is the corruption of officials in Ptolemaic Egypt with police and non-police duties as well as the assumption of responsibilities beyond the formal duties of each office. The institution of the Ptolemaic prison is also studied in comparison with the current institution, while the petitions of the prisoners are analyzed with the methodological tools of modern theory (see in. Foucault, Bourdieu). Our research was based mostly on papyri found with keywords and time constraints in the HGV and secondarily in the Bibliography.
More specifically, the questions posed in the paper are: was there widespread criminal behavior by officials in Ptolemaic Egypt, and to what extent can we (or cannot) speak of organized crime? The criminal behavior of officers with and without police duties is examined in different chapters, since the former are the front line of the state and are the ones who present themselves at the scene of the crime. As a result, they are more often accused of criminal conduct, insults, illegal searches, asset seizures and arrests. Thus, since more material survives about the officials who performed what is now considered police work, it has been deemed appropriate to examine them separately from the rest. Officials without police duties are mainly accused of violations of an economic and fiscal nature.
After examining the criminal behavior of officials with and without police duties and whether they can be attributed to organized crime or are individual violations, the case of Zenon, secretary to the Dioiketes, is studied. Zenon, although he did not legally exercise police and judicial duties, in the end due to his great influence in the areas where Governor Apollonius exercised his power (Memphis and mainly Philadelphia) came to perform duties and responsibilities that normally belonged to state officials. Based on Zenon's tasks, we propose specific dates for papyri in his archive that are generally dated to the mid-3rd century B.C. at present (HGV, Edgar C.C., Pestman).
Furthermore, since the prison is a constant reference in the petitions, the institution of the Ptolemaic prison, its philosophy and symbolism as well as the social role it played are examined. In the context of the study of the prison and the imprisoned, the disciplinary phenomena of corruption and delinquency in Ptolemaic Egypt are analyzed as well as the conceptualization and symbolism of Ptolemaic prisons in the light of Foucault and poststructuralist theory, in an effort - which is increasingly intensified in the humanities - to inscribe the examples of ancient societies, and in our case of Ptolemaic Egypt, in modern theory with the consequent use of its methodological tools.
Main subject category:
History
Keywords:
Papyrology, Abuse of office, Ptolemaic Egypt, Officials, Zenon
Number of references:
189
