Format:
Online-Ressource (350 p.)
ISBN:
9789004141056
Content:
This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history
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Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Abbreviations; List of Maps, Tables, Plates, and Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Chapter One Creating a Metropolis: A Comparative Demographic Perspective (Walter Scheidel); Chapter Two Egyptian Elite Self-Presentation in the Context of Ptolemaic Rule (John Baines); Chapter Three Posidippus's Poetry Book: Where Macedon Meets Egypt (Susan Stephens); Chapter Four Realismo ed eclettismo nell'arte alessandrina (Nicola Bonacasa); Chapter Five Les hiérothytes alexandrins: une magistrature grecque dans la capitale lagide (Fabienne Burkhalter)
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Chapter Six The oikos of Alexandria (Livia Capponi)Chapter Seven Portrayals of the Wise and Virtuous in Alexandrian Jewish Works: Jews' Perceptions of Themselves and Others (Ellen Birnbaum); Chapter Eight Alexandria and Middle Egypt: Some Aspects of Social and Economic Contacts under Roman Rule (Mohammed Abd-el-Ghani); Chapter Nine Galen's Alexandria (Heinrich von Staden); Chapter Ten Hellenism and Opposition to Christianity in Alexandria (Christopher Haas); Chapter Eleven Some Unpublished Wax Figurines from Upper Egypt (Mona Haggag)
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Chapter Twelve Late Antique Pagan Networks from Athens to the Thebaid (Giovanni Ruffini)Chapter Thirteen The Island of Pharos in Myth and History (Mostafa el-Abbadi); Bibliography (Index);
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433704192
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004141056
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Language:
English
Keywords:
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