Alexandria : a cultural and religious melting pot / edited by George Hinge and Jens A. Krasilnikoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinge, George.

Krasilnikoff, Jens A.

Series:

Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 9.

Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity (ASMA) ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexandria (Egypt)--History.

Alexandria (Egypt).

Alexandria (Egypt)--Intellectual life.

Alexandria (Egypt)--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations, plans.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination of the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world and so did Philo, Josephus and Clement. In various fashions, the four papers of Part I of the volume, Alexandria from Greece and Egypt, deal with the relationship between Ptolemaic Alexandria and its Greek past. However, the Egyptian origin and heritage also play important roles for the arguments. The contributions to the second part of the book are devoted to discussions of various aspects of contact and development between Rome, Judaism and Christianity. -- Publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788779347458

8779347452

OCLC:

812254064