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Alexandria : a Cultural and Religious Melting Pot.

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 'culture...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hinge, George
Otros Autores: Bilde, Per, Jensen, Minna Skafte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, 2010.
Colección:Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity.
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505 0 |a Front Matter; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; PREFACE; 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; 1. Space, Place and Identity; 2. The Founding: from Egypt as Space to Alexandria as Place; 3. Alexandria as Ptolemaic Place; 4. Cult and Place in the Early Ptolemaic Period; 5. Alexandria's Pantheon and the Ptolemies; 6. Ruler Cult; 7. Conclusions; References. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER 2. Theatrical Fiction and Visual Bilingualism in the Monumental Tombs of Ptolemaic AlexandriaReferences; CHAPTER 3. Language and Race: Theocritus and the Koine Identity of Ptolemaic Egypt; 1. Race; 2. Linguistic identity in Classical Greece; 3. Koine and Panhellenisation; 4. The dialect of Theocritus' idylls; 5. Linguistic prejudices in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; 6. Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 4. Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria; 1. The Library; 2. The sources; 3. The scholarship; 4. The Alexandrian melting-pot; References; PART II. ROME, JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER 5. Philo as a Polemist and a Political Apologist An Investigation of his Two Historical Treatises Against Flaccus and The Embassy to Gaius11. Introduction; 2. The situation of the Jews in Alexandria (and Palestine) during the crisis years 38-41; 3. Against Flaccus26; 4. The Embassy to Gaius32; 5. Literary genre, aim, intended readers and dating of the two treatises; 6. Philo's barely disguised menaces against Rome; 7. Conclusions; References; CHAPTER 6. Alexandrian Judaism: Rethinking a Problematic Cultural Category; 1. Embarking on the Voyage. 
505 8 |a 2. The Cusp of the Dilemma: Reconstruction on the Basis of Confined Sources3. Thinking and Speaking about Culture; 4. Catalogue of Problems; 5. Alexandrian Jewry: Historical Reality or Scholarly Phantom?; 6. The Politeuma of Alexandrian Judaism; 7. Different Stages in the History of Alexandrian Judaism; 8. A Brief Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 7. From School to Patriarchate: Aspects on the Christianisation of Alexandria; 1. Introduction; 2. The Christian School in Alexandria; 3. Teachers and Bishops; 4. Persecution and Schism; 5. Archbishop and Emperor; 6. Monks and Bishops; Conclusion. 
504 |a ReferencesCHAPTER 8. Religious Conflict in Late Antique Alexandria: Christian Responses to "Pagan" Statues in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE; 1. Introduction; 2. Early Christians and Pagan Statues; 3. The Destruction of the Serapeum and its Statuary; 4. Further Christian Responses to Pagan Statues in Alexandria; 5. Responses to Pagan Statues in Alexandria's Hinterland; 6. Conclusion; References; List of Contributors. 
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