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Alexandria in late antiquity
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ISBN: 080187033X 9780801870330 080185377X 9780801885419 0801885418 9780801853777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press


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Alexandrian and Alexandria-influenced mould-made lamps of the Hellenistic period
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ISBN: 086054866X Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

Alexandria in late antiquity : topography and social conflict
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ISBN: 080185377X 9780801853777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University press,

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Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologiansamong them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in 'Alexandria in Late Antiquity', Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs--Jews, pagans, and Christians--he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics. In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed--a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration--a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.


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Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägypten: die Zeitbestimmung der ägyptischen Geschichte von der Vorzeit bis 332 v. Chr.
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ISBN: 3805323107 9783805323109 Year: 1997 Volume: 46 Publisher: [Lieu de publication inconnu]: [éditeur inconnu],

Searching for ancient Egypt : art, architecture, and artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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ISBN: 0801434823 Year: 1997 Publisher: [Dallas, Tex.] : [Philadelphia, Pa.] : [Ithaca, N.Y.] : Dallas Museum of Art University of Pennsylvania Museum Cornell University Press,


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Die Beziehungen zwischen dem alten Israel und Ägypten : von den Anfängen bis zum Exil
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ISBN: 3534084268 9783534084265 Year: 1997 Volume: 290 Publisher: Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft,

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