Alexandria
A Cultural and Religious Melting Pot
En del af serien Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity (9) , og fagområderne Antikforskning, Historie og Historie (antik)
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Redigeret af
George Hinge og
Jens A. Krasilnikoff
Med bidrag af
Per Bilde,
George Hinge,
Minna Skafte Jensen,
Jens A. Krasilnikoff,
Troels Myrup Kristensen,
Anders Klostergaard Petersen,
Samuel Rubenson og
Marjorie Susan Venit
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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.
Indholdsfortegnelse
Introduction
George Hinge and Jens A. Krasilnikoff
Part I. Alexandria From Greece and Egypt
Chapter 1
Alexandria as Place: Tempo-Spacial Traits of Royal Ideology in Early Ptolemaic Egypt
Jens A. Krasilnikoff
Chapter 2
Theatrical Fiction and Visual Bilingualism in the Monumental Tombs of Ptolemaic Alexandria
Majorie Susan Venit
Chapter 3
Language and Race: Theocritus and the Koine Identity of Ptolemaic Egypt
George Hinge
Chapter 4
Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
Minna Skafte Jensen
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
Per Bilde
Chapter 6
Alexandrian Judaism: Rethinking a Problematic Cultural Category
Anders Klostergaard Petersen
Chapter 7
From School to Patriarchate: Aspects on the Christianisation of Alexandria
Samuel Rubenson
Chapter 8
Religious Conflict in Late Antique Alexandria: Christian Responses to "Pagan" Statues in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Troels Myrup Kristensen
List of Contributors
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