Alexandria a cultural and religious melting pot - Hinge, George; Krasilnikoff, Jens A. (Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2009)
Introduction / George Hinge and Jens A. Krasilnikoff -- Alexandria as place : tempo-spatial traits of royal ideology in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Jens A. Krasilnikoff -- Theatrical fiction and visual bilingualism in the monumental tombs of Ptolemaic Alexandria / Marjorie Susan Venit -- Language and race : Theocritus and the Koine identity of Ptolemaic Egypt / George Hinge -- Homeric scholarship in Alexandria / Minna Skafte Jensen -- Philo as a polemist and a political apologist : an investigation of his two historical treatises Against Flaccus and The Embassy to Gaius / Per Bilde -- Alexandrian Judaism : rethinking a problematic cultural category / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- From school to patriarchate : aspects on the Christianisation of Alexandria / Samuel Rubenson -- Religious conflict in Late Antique Alexandria : Christian responses to "pagan" statues in the fourth and fifth centuries CE / Troels Myrup Kristensen.
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Keywords: Alexandria (Egypt) -- History; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Intellectual life; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Religion; Alexandria; HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt; Electronic books