Alexandria in Late Antiquity
Subtitle: Topography and Social Conflict (Ancient Society and History)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 18, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780801853777
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social history; History: World; Ancient Egypt - History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient World; Egypt; Ancient - Egypt; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / General; Alexandria (Egypt); Civilization; Ethnic relations; Religion; Social conditions
First sentence: Justinian was furious.
Description: Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians - among 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.