Evening Lecture – Cops and Robbers, Egyptian Style: Police Work in Ptolemaic Egypt

Cops and Robbers, Egyptian Style: Police Work in Ptolemaic Egypt
John F. Bauschatz, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Arizona Bauschatz will draw on a large body of evidence for the cultural, social, and economic interactions between
state and citizen to demonstrate that in Ptolemaic Egypt (330-30 BC) police officials enjoyed great
autonomy, but also that government assistance, via these officials, was readily available to even the lowest levels of society. The unique evidence for policing in Greco-Roman Egypt