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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.

Paganism --- Christian communities --- Asceticism --- Alexandrian school, Christian. --- Education, Ancient --- Riots --- Paganisme --- Communautés chrétiennes --- Ascétisme --- Ecole chrétienne d'Alexandrie --- Education antique --- Emeutes --- History --- Histoire --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypte) --- Intellectual life. --- Church history. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Histoire religieuse --- Alexandrian school, Christian --- Intellectual life --- Church history --- -Christian communities --- -Asceticism --- -Alexandrian school, Christian. --- -Riots --- -27 <32 ALEXANDRIA> --- Civil disorders --- Assembly, Right of --- Offenses against public safety --- Political violence --- Crowds --- Demonstrations --- Mobs --- Street fighting (Military science) --- Education --- Alexandrian theology --- Christian Alexandrian school --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Antiochian school --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Christian communes --- Communes, Christian --- Communities, Christian --- Religious communities --- Civilization, Pagan --- Heathenism --- Religions --- History. --- -History. --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Oud-Egypte--ALEXANDRIA --- -Alexandria (Egypt) --- -Intellectual life. --- Communautés chrétiennes --- Ascétisme --- Ecole chrétienne d'Alexandrie --- 27 <32 ALEXANDRIA> --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- Paganism - Egypt - Alexandria - History --- Christian communities - Egypt - Alexandria - History --- Asceticism - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Education, Ancient - Egypt - Alexandria --- Riots - Egypt - Alexandria - History --- Paganisme et christianisme --- Alexandrie --- Evêques --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Intellectual life --- Alexandria (Egypt) - Church history

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The decline of Roma has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American jounalists in the twenty-first century AD to roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a tool to illustrate the negative consequences of changes in their world. And Rome did, in fact, decline and, eventually, fall. An empire that once controlled all or part of more than 40 modern Europan, Asian, and African countries no longer exists. Roman prophets of decline were, ultimately, proven correct -- a fact that makes their modern invocations all the more powerful. If it happened then, it could happen now.The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the stories of the people who built their political and literary careers around promises of roman renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed for Roman decline. The story begings during the Roman Republic just after 200 BC and proceeds through the empire of Augustus and his successors, traces the Roman loss of much of western Europe in the fifth century AD, and then follows Roman history as it runs through the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) until its fall in 1453. The final two chapters look at ideas of Roman decline and renewal from the fifteenth century to the present. If Rome illustrates the profound danger of the rhetoric of decline, it also demonstrates the rehabilitative potential of a rhetoric that focuses on collaborative restoration, a lesson of great relevance to our world today.

Rome--Historiography --- Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D

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American literature --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History --- Border life --- Homesteading --- Pioneer life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Pioneers --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- West (U.S.)

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Imperialism --- Postcolonialism --- History --- America --- United States --- Colonization. --- Colonization --- Historiography. --- Study and teaching. --- Social conditions

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Civilization, Ancient. --- Comparative civilization. --- Culture --- Social evolution. --- Social history --- History. --- Civilization, Ancient --- Comparative civilization --- Social evolution --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Evolution --- Social change --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Civilization, Comparative --- Ancient civilization --- History --- Social aspects