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245 10 Alexandria :|ba Cultural and Religious Melting Pot.
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490 1 Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity
504 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.
505 0 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 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 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 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.
520 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 o.
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