This thesis examines the life of Gaius Gemellus Horigenes. I primarily focus on the question of what to make of his claims of discrimination on the basis of his blindness. In attempting to answer this question, I rely upon several methodological approaches, the first being a theorization of violence based in other papyri from Roman Egypt and its culture of petitions, and the second being a multifactorial model of disability which serves as a useful mode of analysis of the myriad sociocultural and personal phenomena that construct and contribute to disability as an individual experience. I consider the merits and drawbacks of both approaches, which ultimately inform my conclusions about Gemellus as a man between several worlds, as well as my thoughts on the future of ancient disability studies, which I think will be most successful when able to consider as fully as possible the highly individualized nature of disability.