Alexandria : a cultural and religious melting pot /

Alexandria : a cultural and religious melting pot /

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Other Authors: Hinge, George., Krasilnikoff, Jens A.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2009.

Series: Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 9.

Subjects:

Alexandria (Egypt) > History.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Intellectual life.
Alexandria (Egypt) > Religion.

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Call Number: DT154 .A4 A449 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.