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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997. Offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu.
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Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians-among them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in Alexandria in Late Antiquity, Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs-Jews, pagans, and Christians-he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics.
In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed-a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration-a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Urban Setting
Chapter 3. The Social World
Chapter 4. The Jewish Community
Chapter 5. The Pagan Community
Chapter 6. The Christian Community: The Interior Landscape and the Civic Landscape
Chapter 7. The Inner Life of the Christian Community: Clergy and People
Chapter 8. Community and Factionalism in the Christian Community
Chapter 9. Intercommunal Conflict during Late Antiquity
Chapter 10. Conclusions
Chapter 11. Epilogue: From Roman Alexandria to Islamic al-lskandartyyah
Appendix Chronological Table of Emperors, Prefects, and Patriarchs: Fourth and Fifth Centuries
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
