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Riot in Alexandria
Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520294868 |
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This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted in Alexandria in 486 when a group of students attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly insulted the students' teachers. Pagan students, Christians affiliated with a local monastery, and the Alexandrian ecclesiastical leaders all cast the incident in a different light, and each group tried with that interpretation to influence subsequent events. Watts, drawing on Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac sources, shows how historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped the interactions and behavior of these high-profile communities. Connecting oral and written texts to the personal relationships that gave them meaning and to the actions that gave them form, Riot in Alexandria draws new attention to the understudied social and cultural history of the later fifth-century Roman world and at the same time opens a new window on late antique intellectual life.
The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C E and the Persecution of the Jews A Historical Reconstruction
Author | : Sandra Gambetti |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047441915 |
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An imperial adjudication against the Jews prompted the riots of 38 CE in Alexandria. The Roman prefect and the Alexandrian citizenry acted within their institutional roles to the effect that most of the Jews lost their legal residence for good.
Religious Violence in the Ancient World
Author | : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108494908 |
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A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt
Author | : Wilfrid Scawen Blunt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : NWU:35556012040036 |
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Ammonius Interpretation of Porphyry s Introduction to Aristotle s Five Terms
Author | : Michael Chase |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781350089242 |
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One of his six introductions to philosophy, widely used by students in Alexandria, Ammonius' lecture on Porphyry was recorded in writing by his students in the commentary translated here. Along with five other types of introductions (three of which are translated in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle volume Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic) it made Greek philosophy more accessible to other cultures. These introductions became standard in Ammonius' school and included a popular set of five or more definitions of philosophy, some of them drawn from commentaries on quite different works. Ammonius' lecture expounded the most celebrated and discussed previous introduction written by Porphyry 200 years earlier, which was devoted to five main technical terms of Aristotle's logic. Ammonius was sympathetic to Porphyry because they both sought to harmonise the views of Plato and Aristotle with each other, arguing in different ways that the two philosophers did not disagree about the nature of universals. Porphyry's introduction was a hugely influential work for centuries after its composition, and this commentary by Ammonius served to maintain its position at the centre of later schools of philosophy. This English translation of Ammonius' work is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
The Cambridge History of Africa
Author | : J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521215927 |
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After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II deals with the beginnings of history from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050.
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Author | : William V. Harris,Giovanni Ruffini |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789047406389 |
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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.
City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria
Author | : Edward J. Watts |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520931807 |
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This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.