Alexandria : a cultural and religious melting pot /
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Language: English
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Aarhus :
Aarhus University Press,
2009.
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Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ;
9.
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Call Number: DT154 .A4 A449 2009
Table of Contents:
- Introduction Part I. Alexandria from Greece and Egypt Chapter 1. Alexandria as Place: Tempo-Spatial Traits of Royal Ideology in Early Ptolemaic Egypt Chapter 2. Theatrical Fiction and Visual Bilingualism in the Monumental Tombs of Ptolemaic Alexandria Chapter 3. Language and Race: Theocritus and the Koine Identity of Ptolemaic Egypt Chapter 4. Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria Part II. Rome, Judaism and Christianity Chapter 5. Philo as a Polemist and a Political Apologist An Investigation of his Two Historical Treatises Against Flaccus and The Embassy to Gaius Chapter 6. Alexandrian Judaism: Rethinking a Problematic Cultural Category Chapter 7. From School to Patriarchate: Aspects on the Christianisation of Alexandria Chapter 8. Religious Conflict in Late Antique Alexandria: Christian Responses to "Pagan" Statues in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE List of Contributors