Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece

by: Harris, W.V. Ruffini, G.

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Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Series:
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Volume: 26
Editors: William V. Harris and Giovanni Ruffini

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

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). 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

As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so reminiscent of some modern cities) add to the interest. The present volume contains the papers given at a conference at Columbia University in 2002 which attempted to lay some of the foundations for a new history of Alexandria by considering, in particular, its position between the traditions and life of Egypt on the one hand, and on the other the immigrants who came there from Greece and elsewhere in the wake of the founder Alexander of Macedon.

William V. Harris is Professor of History at Columbia University. Giovanni Ruffini is a graduate student in ancient history at Columbia University and is writing his doctoral dissertation on the social networks of late-antique Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito.

Subjects:
332 B.C.-640 A.D
Alexandria (Egypt) History Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings
Egypt
Egypt Alexandria
Egypt History Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. Congresses
Égypte Histoire 332 av. J.-C.-640 (Période gréco-romaine) Congrès
History

Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece

by: Harris, W.V. Ruffini, G.

• ISBN-13: 9789004141056 / 978-90-04-14105-6
• ISBN-03: 9004141057 / 90-04-14105-7
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2004

Price: 119,00 EURO

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