Alexandria a cultural and religious melting pot / [electronic resource] :
edited by George Hinge and Jens A. Krasilnikoff.
- Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2009
- 1 online resource (176 p.) ill.
- Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity (ASMA) ; IX .
- Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity ; 9. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Alexandria as place : tempo-spatial traits of royal ideology in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Theatrical fiction and visual bilingualism in the monumental tombs of Ptolemaic Alexandria / Language and race : Theocritus and the Koine identity of Ptolemaic Egypt / Homeric scholarship in Alexandria / Philo as a polemist and a political apologist : an investigation of his two historical treatises Against Flaccus and The Embassy to Gaius / Alexandrian Judaism : rethinking a problematic cultural category / From school to patriarchate : aspects on the Christianisation of Alexandria / Religious conflict in Late Antique Alexandria : Christian responses to "pagan" statues in the fourth and fifth centuries CE / George Hinge and Jens A. Krasilnikoff -- Jens A. Krasilnikoff -- Marjorie Susan Venit -- George Hinge -- Minna Skafte Jensen -- Per Bilde -- Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Samuel Rubenson -- Troels Myrup Kristensen.